The moral? The more things change the more they stay the same.

That 50 cent haircut one, must be where hippies came from! I wonder what the difference is in real dollars in the prices when corrected for inflation and increased wages. I remember in college working for $5.00 an hour and wondering if I could really work hard enough to be worth that much. Oops just intimated my age. That would have been 1968 or so.

My father was born in 1955 so I’m glad that year came to be.

I just had to stop and say, “Wow, what a beauty of a car.”
And to think, I used to dislike those as a kid, as we were getting into the boxes that would dominate the car market for some time after.

The ’55 Chevy was always my favorite car from that era. While everyone drooled over the ’57, the simplicity of the nose on the ’55 just made it look so much tougher and faster. I remember the first ’55 Chevy model I made as a kid – black with flame decals on the side. I’m guessing it probably got blown up with firecrackers like the rest of them did.
I was just talking with someone about how crazy the changes over the last 10-15 years have been. Being a youth pastor now for 24 years, things are so different now compared to even 1985. As we look at change and innovation within the church (which needs to always be happening), we younger folks (and, yup, still considering 41 “younger”) need to remember that some of our older brothers and sisters really have seen a lot of change and how difficult it might be for them. 29 cents a gallon – $4.00 a gallon. 50 cents for a haircut – $9 for one today. Slide rules – smart phones. Change isn’t comfortable for most people (I believe it is Mark Twain who is credited with saying, “No one likes change except for a wet baby.”) and some of our brothers and sisters have seen so much it is no wonder they want something in their lives to remain the same. So, it doesn’t become an issue of not changing but rather that we need to learn to manage change well and to do change well and to be sensitive as we go through the process.j5

that’s the year I started school–don’t want to go back at all–but I do want to keep learning.

Not to be too pedantic, but several of these don’t match 1955.
There were no “astronauts” yet in 1955 (especially training in Texas).
Postage in 1955 was only 3 cents, and didn’t reach 10 cents until 1974.
Babe Ruth was making $80,000 in 1930, more than President Hoover (Ruth is famously alleged to have said “I had a better year”).
The top marginal federal income tax rate was much higher in 1955 than it is today (Wikipedia says 91%).
I suppose to be authentic to 1955, there should be a line about how uppity the you-know-whats are getting, if we let them in our schools next thing you know one will want to be President.
Amen to comments #1 and #5 about change. Especially #5, and not just for the oldest generation — my wife and I are in our mid-40s and having a hard time dealing with “our” worship service at church changing from a contemporary communal singing style to more of a band-dominated style.