63 Years Ago

Several years ago, when driving from my mother's family home in Norwich,
my son questioned as we travelled country roads:

“Looking at today's modern vehicles...I wonder what I'll be driving 60 years from now!”

A few days ago he forwarded to me:

Comments Made in the Year 1957

“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.

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

“Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $5000 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. If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it!”

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

“Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know ~ boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls do.

“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 some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play baseball?
It wouldn't surprise me if some day, 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.

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

“Marriage doesn't mean a thing anymore: 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 of 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 the weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.

“No one can afford to be sick anymore; $35 a day in the hospital
is too rich for my blood!

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The human mind is not satisfied with observing and studying

any natural occurrence alone...but takes pleasure in connecting every natural fact with what has gone before it...and what's to come after it. (Unknown author)

John Tyndale states:
We cannot, without prejudice to humanity ~ separate the present from the past.

Picture a wave in the ocean as you see it:
Measure its height ~ the way sunlight refracts when it passes through: it is there ~ and you can See it...and you Know what it is...It's a Wave...and then it crashes on the shore...and it is gone!
But the Water is still there!

(The wave was just a different way for the water to be exposed for a few moments.)
Explanation by author, Chidi Anagonye.

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