Comments made in the year 1956:

[eyescene]

Comments made in the year 1956:

"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."

"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."

"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."

"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."

"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "damn" in it.

"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president."

"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."

"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best
people to congress."

"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.


hmmmm I remember spending $40.00 a week on Groceries in the 70's.

I remember My when Dad snapped a finger and you stopped dead in your tracks.

I remember when Grocery stores had lopsided wooden floors.

I remember .25 gasoline.

I remember .10 movies shows

I remember when there was no air condition in schools or homes

So what do you all remember way back when.

[Conveyor Belt]

I remember when the A team came on TV.

[Honey]

Oh I loved that.

[pooker]

I remember when nintendo 64 came out when I was a little kid and I thought that was the coolest thing ever since sliced bread.

Now the little ones (I say little ones but I know old people play it to) are playing xbox 360s and everything that blew the technology of my time away .

[ComputerDude]

Where those quotes in there more then once or did I have a deja-vu while reading it?

[thornton04]

I remember when making a mixed tape was cool. I still havent caught on to MP3 Players.

[Scarlett O'Hara]

I remeber 8 tracks.
I remeber nobody except the president having a phone in the car.
I remeber dial telephones.
I remeber the five and ten cent store.
I remember when bubblegum costs a penny.

[pooker]

Seriously a five and ten cent store, man I thought a literal "Dollar store" was crazy back then but dang.

It wasn't just like plastic spiders and stuff was it ? Ir those rings you get out of the quarter machines ?

[countrygirl]

My mom used to feed a family of 6 for $20 a week, but of course we had a garden too. You've got to remember, though, that folks didn't make much money then either. I remember that I was an older teenager when my dad started making $100 a week and we thought that was a lot of money. I got a $30 dress when I was a senior and that was one EXPENSIVE dress!

Hey, I remember taking a bath in a washtub (barely) and I also remember that my aunt that lived in Glendale had an outhouse. I don't ever remember staying in a motel until I was a teenager...we couldn't afford it.

[Hermione]

I remember us finding a $20 on the street one time and it did indeed feed us a week -- this was the late 60's.

Pooker, we called them "dime stores" and they had everything. The Woolworth's in Memphis had a smell of roasted nuts and candy that I can still remember.

[countrygirl]

8 tracks? I remember getting our first television. I was 7 years old. You could only get 1 channel (7) and it didn't stay on all day.

[RGDoherty]

I wonder how many people on here remember actually having to get up to change the channel on a Black and White Zenith? When we moved to the house that my parents still live in, we got a 2nd T.V......WOW!!! and it had a REMOTE!!!! The black and white became mine and my sister's in the Game Room. The New Zenith with the 4 button remote (On/Off, Channel Up, Volume Up, Volume Down) was all the rage......still had to get up to change the antenea direction when you switched from channel 7 to channel 13.

[Conveyor Belt]

Although I grew up in the 80's, I grew up in a home with a 13" BW TV. That's all we had until I was about 11. Then we got a big 19" color tv with push button channel changing capability. It wasn't until I was well into my teenage years when we got a tv with a remote.

And all we had was 7 and U2...

[IFARM]

What you talking about. I get 5,7,13,19,22,25 and the snow channel......:laugh:......and the little man on aol has a walking stick......:smt023

[firefly]

I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon & my brother would walk up West 4th Street to the gas station there & buy a gallon for the lawn mower. I remember one of our neighbors bought a "new fangled electric lawn mower" that had a long cord on it. I remember getting short Cokes out of the Coke machine at First Baptist Church on Wednesday nights with my friend that cost a dime. We would hide out in the girls' bathroom & drink the Cokes & skip Prayer Meeting(we were BAD! LOL!) I remember getting wax whistles & lips at Halloween. I remember getting those HUGE jawbreakers that had bubble gum in the middle for 5 cents. I remember our old black & white Phillips TV. I remember the old fashioned hair dryers with the hose & bonnet before the blow dryers came out in the 70's. I remember the "Ben Franklin Ten Cent Store" that was close enough to our house that we walked or rode our bikes there. I remember the "Seale Lilly" ice cream store that was in the same little plaza as the Ben Franklin. I remember when there were live fish & tadpoles in Gordon's Creek & my friend & I would catch tadpoles & watch them grow into frogs. I remember transistor radios & also the bigger radios that had tubes inside of them. I remember when people did not lock their doors in the daytime, only at night. We had an attic fan & kept all of the windows open at night in the summer months. I remember the whole neighborhood getting together for a game of kick-the-can that lasted until dark. I remember Barq's Peach Drinks & Orange Crush. I remeber the ice cream man driving his little truck to our street & all of the kids would make a mad dash for him! I remember catching fireflies or lightening bugs in the summer. I remember Mama letting me stay up late & watch the first man on the moon in 1969 & she said "You will be telling your grandchildren about this one day". I remember our Pediatrician(God rest her soul) who made house calls when other doctors didn't. She saved my life more than once. I remember "Weekly Readers" in grade school & how much I looked forward to getting them because I LOVE to read! I remember how we had prayer & a devotional reading & said the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag every morning at school. I remember how we had "room mothers" & my Mama served 3 years out of the 6 that I was at Davis Elementery. We had Christmas Parties, Halloween Parties, Easter Parties, Valentine Parties. We even had a "Toy Parade" after we came back to school from Christmas break & brought one Christmas present to show to the whole auditorium. Those were the good old days...;)

[dollfus46]

hmmmm I remember spending $40.00 a week on Groceries in the 70's.

I remember My when Dad snapped a finger and you stopped dead in your tracks.

I remember when Grocery stores had lopsided wooden floors.

I remember .25 gasoline.

I remember .10 movies shows

I remember when there was no air condition in schools or homes

So what do you all remember way back when.

I remember DDT trucks, a coke went from 5 cents to 6 cents. I remember Duncan Yoyo's with the "diamonds" were 65 cents. I had to save my allowance for a month to buy one. I remember a regular haircut was 25 cents and a flat top was 50 cents. I remember party lines and phones with no dials. "Number Please?"
I remember the bus stopped across hardy from Kimball Ave. I could catch the bus going uptown on Saturday for a nickel and see cartoons and "Rocketman" serials at the Sangaer theater all morning for a dime. Wrangler/Levi blue jeans were $5.00 at Belk-Whitney downtown.

[dollfus46]

I remember us finding a $20 on the street one time and it did indeed feed us a week -- this was the late 60's.

Pooker, we called them "dime stores" and they had everything. The Woolworth's in Memphis had a smell of roasted nuts and candy that I can still remember.

Yeah, I remember Woolworth's in H'burg. Wooden floor and the smell of popcorn. I got my Official Davy Crockett coon skin cap there. I was cool!


I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon & my brother would walk up West 4th Street to the gas station there & buy a gallon for the lawn mower. I remember one of our neighbors bought a "new fangled electric lawn mower" that had a long cord on it. I remember getting short Cokes out of the Coke machine at First Baptist Church on Wednesday nights with my friend that cost a dime. We would hide out in the girls' bathroom & drink the Cokes & skip Prayer Meeting(we were BAD! LOL!) I remember getting wax whistles & lips at Halloween. I remember getting those HUGE jawbreakers that had bubble gum in the middle for 5 cents. I remember our old black & white Phillips TV. I remember the old fashioned hair dryers with the hose & bonnet before the blow dryers came out in the 70's. I remember the "Ben Franklin Ten Cent Store" that was close enough to our house that we walked or rode our bikes there. I remember the "Seale Lilly" ice cream store that was in the same little plaza as the Ben Franklin. I remember when there were live fish & tadpoles in Gordon's Creek & my friend & I would catch tadpoles & watch them grow into frogs. I remember transistor radios & also the bigger radios that had tubes inside of them. I remember when people did not lock their doors in the daytime, only at night. We had an attic fan & kept all of the windows open at night in the summer months. I remember the whole neighborhood getting together for a game of kick-the-can that lasted until dark. I remember Barq's Peach Drinks & Orange Crush. I remeber the ice cream man driving his little truck to our street & all of the kids would make a mad dash for him! I remember catching fireflies or lightening bugs in the summer. I remember Mama letting me stay up late & watch the first man on the moon in 1969 & she said "You will be telling your grandchildren about this one day". I remember our Pediatrician(God rest her soul) who made house calls when other doctors didn't. She saved my life more than once. I remember "Weekly Readers" in grade school & how much I looked forward to getting them because I LOVE to read! I remember how we had prayer & a devotional reading & said the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag every morning at school. I remember how we had "room mothers" & my Mama served 3 years out of the 6 that I was at Davis Elementery. We had Christmas Parties, Halloween Parties, Easter Parties, Valentine Parties. We even had a "Toy Parade" after we came back to school from Christmas break & brought one Christmas present to show to the whole auditorium. Those were the good old days...;)
You aren't too far behind me, firefly.

Remember Grapette? Musta been a 5 oz. It was smaller than a coke. And "traveling"? Turn the coke upside down to see where it was made? Whoever had the coke fartherest away got his paid for.
I remember the flood of about 1961. I was at Hawkins Jr. Hight then. All the football equipment for the HS was in the basement of the auditorium there next to the old tennis courts. We had to go down that narrow hallway and carry equipment out over our heads with water up to our necks.
No such thing as Pediatricians that I remember. You had a doctor. My uncle Grady Cook was my doctor. He was in with Harry Fridge and Clayton Cook. He owned South Mississippi Infirmary. Musta been a 20 bed hospital there at the other end of the block from Scared Heart School. They tore it down and built South Mississippi Medical Clinic there. The building is still there I think. But it's something else. All three doctors have passed away.
Woodley Elementary was pretty new. The newsest to be built was Grace Chiristian while I was in the 6th grade I think. Thymes came along around 1963 I think.
Coney Island hamburgers. About the size of crystal burger but homemade like a regular burger. We'd order 6 at a time. I still have one two of those gut granades each trip to Hattiesburg. It's a must do for me. That and Wards chili cheese dogs.

[onlyme]

Whenever we visit my mom the kids think we entered a time warp. She believes in " if it isn't broke, don't fix it" and so she still has no "newfangled electronic devices" and listens to music and the news on a normal radio and a turntable. The first time the kids wanted to make a phone call there they didn't know how to operate the phone. " What's that funny looking disk on the phone?". "It's called a rotary phone, dear, and this is what you do with it...." :kekeke:. I find it increasingly difficult to talk to her because internet, e-mail, video console, Wii, cellphone contracts, MP3 players etc. mean next to nothing to her.

[dollfus46]

Whenever we visit my mom the kids think we entered a time warp. She believes in " if it isn't broke, don't fix it" and so she still has no "newfangled electronic devices" and listens to music and the news on a normal radio and a turntable. The first time the kids wanted to make a phone call there they didn't know how to operate the phone. " What's that funny looking disk on the phone?". "It's called a rotary phone, dear, and this is what you do with it...." :kekeke:. I find it increasingly difficult to talk to her because internet, e-mail, video console, Wii, cellphone contracts, MP3 players etc. mean next to nothing to her.

I've never met your mom, but I love her already. She and I could have a wonderful conversation, I'd bet.:smt023

[firefly]

Dollfus, I remember a grape drink, but I don't remember the name. I don't remember the flood of '61 because I would have been only 2 or 3 then. I do remember the flood of 1974. It was bad. And in 1976 we had a gullywasher of a rainstorm that sent Gordon's creek out of its banks & we were waist deep in water at Blair(Hattiesburg High). That was before the city widened the creek. Did you grow up on Kimaball Avenue? I was on Dixie Avenue, just a few blocks down. I worked at Fred's when it was down town in 1976 & I would walk over to Bradley Bros. to get my fiance & we would eat lunch at Woolworth's. They had some good food for a diner. Bradley Bros. building is gone now. The owners Fred & Kimball Bradley have passed on, too.

[firefly]

hmmmm I remember spending $40.00 a week on Groceries in the 70's.

I remember My when Dad snapped a finger and you stopped dead in your tracks.

I remember when Grocery stores had lopsided wooden floors.

I remember .25 gasoline.

I remember .10 movies shows

I remember when there was no air condition in schools or homes

So what do you all remember way back when. Eyescene, I had to LOL about your Dad snapping his fingers. All my Daddy had to do was give you the "look" from those steel blue eyes & you stopped dead in your tracks!:ohnoes:

[countrygirl]

I remember the flood of 61. I was about 14 at the time. In my memory, that flood was the worst one. If I remember correctly, the water came all the way up what was then River Avenue to the railroad tracks bordering downtown Hattiesburg. My dad was a city fireman and I remember something about a bad fire in the flood... I'll have to ask my mom to refresh my memory on that one. Sometimes I think I have lost more of my memory than she has.

[eyescene]

I remember DDT trucks, a coke went from 5 cents to 6 cents. I remember Duncan Yoyo's with the "diamonds" were 65 cents. I had to save my allowance for a month to buy one. I remember a regular haircut was 25 cents and a flat top was 50 cents. I remember party lines and phones with no dials. "Number Please?"
I remember the bus stopped across hardy from Kimball Ave. I could catch the bus going uptown on Saturday for a nickel and see cartoons and "Rocketman" serials at the Sangaer theater all morning for a dime. Wrangler/Levi blue jeans were $5.00 at Belk-Whitney downtown.

LOL Oh, Mike I remember having a party line but not an operator, unless we were calling long distance....I remember listing in on a privet calls....and making calls to the grocery to ask if they had Prince Albert in a can? :kekeke:

[countrygirl]

By the way, here's something else I remember. I grew up inside the city limits of Hattiesburg. My grandparents lived next door. I remember the chicken yard we had out back and my grandmother picking a chicken each Sunday and wringing it's neck. I even helped "pluck" chickens on occasion. The feathers were saved then cleaned and boiled to make feather pillows. I still have a feather pillow made with some of those feathers....I just can't make myself part with it.

[eyescene]

Eyescene, I had to LOL about your Dad snapping his fingers. All my Daddy had to do was give you the "look" from those steel blue eyes & you stopped dead in your tracks!:ohnoes:

Firefly the snapp was to get our attention...if he still need the look it. You were in deep...poopoo!

[dollfus46]

Dollfus, I remember a grape drink, but I don't remember the name. I don't remember the flood of '61 because I would have been only 2 or 3 then. I do remember the flood of 1974. It was bad. And in 1976 we had a gullywasher of a rainstorm that sent Gordon's creek out of its banks & we were waist deep in water at Blair(Hattiesburg High). That was before the city widened the creek. Did you grow up on Kimaball Avenue? I was on Dixie Avenue, just a few blocks down. I worked at Fred's when it was down town in 1976 & I would walk over to Bradley Bros. to get my fiance & we would eat lunch at Woolworth's. They had some good food for a diner. Bradley Bros. building is gone now. The owners Fred & Kimball Bradley have passed on, too.

103 Kimball Ave. The house is still there right behind the Dollar Store. Kimble Bradley lived directly across the street from me. Li'l Kim and I grew up together. Dad and Big Kimble were good friends. Every Christmas Big Kimble, my Dad, Li'l Kim and I would go to Bradley Bros at night and get fireworks. I'd get a huge corrugated box full of M-80's, Cherry Bombs, Roman Candles, Lady Fingers, etc.
Li'l Kim is still living in Hattiesburg on S. 38th or 40th I think. The McMullens lived three doors down. McMullens Motors. Course I left to go off to college after graduation from HHS in 64 and never got back, so I don't know about much after that.

[onlyme]

Eyescene, I had to LOL about your Dad snapping his fingers. All my Daddy had to do was give you the "look" from those steel blue eyes & you stopped dead in your tracks!:ohnoes:

LOL. I use "the look" with my boys but the little guy doesn't get in unless big brother hits him in the ribs and whispers "Mom's staring". Maybe I'm becoming cross-eyed in my old age.

[eyescene]

I don't know, the LOOK or the snap did not work with my kids....guess they just didn't get it or I just didn't know how to give it!! ;)