This must have come from an e-mail because....

In my part of the world (Fort Worth) in 1955...

Gas cost .18 cents a gallon. Diesel was about .12 cents.

Minimum wage was .65 cents an hour.

Missions to outer space were not even considered until 1958 when the Russians put up Sputink.

The Federal Income Tax was as high as 96% around that time.

Hotels cost far more then $2. The last time I saw that price was in 1951 at the Hotel on Main which was near the Fort Worth Stockyards. The best rooms were $5, but that included the services of a, shall we say, Chambermaid (if you catch my drift). Ten dollars a night was more like it for a nice place, but you could get a room for $5 a night or $2 an hour at a hot-sheet tourist court.

One of the biggest burger joints in Texas was Sybil's in Dallas. They claim to have invented the 'Drive-In' with car-hops on roller skates.

I paid .65 or .75 cents for a haircut at the Barber shop located on the corner of Azle Ave. and Kerney Street.

Good wages for a working man then was $120 a week.