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House: $30,000
Average income: $4,650
Ford car: $1967-$3929
Milk: $1.01
Gas: $.24
Bread $.19
Postage stamp: $.04
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti, 15 1/2 .oz can.: $ .19
Corned Beef: $.59 lb.
Swiss Steak: $.75 lb.
Libby Tomato Juice, 5 (46 .oz) cans: $1.00
Kraft Carmels, 1 lb pkg: $.37
Milk: $.42 half gal.
Uncle Ben’s Rice, 14 oz box - $.19
Sunkist Oranges, 5 lbs.: $.49
Cantaloupe: $.05 lb.
Celery: $.04 lb.
Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 yr.
Nathan's Hot Dog: $.25
Roundtrip airfare London to New York: $453
At the Hop - Danny and the Juniors
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
All the Way - Frank Sinatra
Stood Up - Ricky Nelson
Don't - Elvis Presley
Short Shorts - Royal Teens
Sugartime - The McGuire Sisters
Get a Job - The Silhouettes
26 Miles (Santa Catalina)
A Wonderful Time Up There - Pat Boone
Tequila - The Champs
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como
Are You Sincere - Andy Williams
Lollipop - The Chordettes
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Laurie London
Twilight Time - Platters
Witch Doctor - David Seville
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck - Elvis Presley
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Big Man - The Four Preps
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Yakety Yak - Coasters
Patricia - Perez Prado
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu) - Dominico Modugno
My True Love - Jack Scott
Little Star - The Elegants
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
It's All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rockin Robin - Bobby Day
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
To Know Him Is To Love him - Teddy Bears
Problems - The Everly Brothers
The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks/David Seville
By now, more than 45 million American households have television sets.
The John Birch Society, a radical anti-Communist organization, is created in the U.S.
Dr. Zhivago is published in the US. Banned in the USSR, Zhivago won author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize which he was forced to decline due to political forces at home.
The price of 1st class US postage is raised to 4¢ from 3¢ where it had been for 26 years. Hard to believe - only a penny in 26 years!
Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France, a position he will hold until 1969.
Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed when the car he was driving skidded into a telephone pole. Campanella wsa the NL's MVP in '51, '53 and '55.
The Jolly Green Giant appears on TV with less than stellar results! In his first incarnation he looks like a monster which scares kids. So they lightened him up and added "Ho, ho, ho" and the lilting "Good things from the garden" song.
Modern consumer credit is born. The American Express Company introduces a charge card meant to compete with the successful Diners Club card. The Bank of American introduces the BankAmericard, which will become the Visa card.
Crest toothpaste inaugurates the "Look, Ma! No cavities!" ad campaign.
Eighteen-year-old Frank Carney sees a story in the Saturday Evening Post about the "pizza fad" among teenagers and college students. With $600 borrowed from his mother, he opens the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kan.
On the Air! You'd find 3,156 AM radio, 537 FM radio and 492 TV Stations.
31.3% of all domestic passenger travel was by railroad; 27.7% by bus; and 38% by air.
30.6% of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 13.3% on TV. Complete allocation of ad dollars.
It's Here! The Hula Hoop!
Sweet n' Low is introduced as an artificial Sweetener, using saccharin instead of sugar. Sweet'N Low received U.S. trademark patent no. 1,000,000.
Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela.
UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
Vice President Richard Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru as he makes a goodwill tour of South and Latin American. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy :>)
And the winner is...Oscar stuff.
Best Motion Picture-Gigi
Best Actor-Daivd Niven,Separate Tables
Best Actress-Susan Hayward,I Want to Live!
NASA is created and Explorer is launched. A big year for the US in the Space Race.
RIAA awards the very first Gold record - to Perry Como. Some gold album stats.
The first ever Grammy Awards!
In Sports...
World Series: NY Yankees d. Milwaukee Braves (4-3)
Pro Football: Baltimore Colts 23 N.Y. Giants 17 in "the Greatest Game Ever Played"
NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks d. Boston Celtics (4-2)
Stanley Cup: Montreal d. Boston (4-2)
Wimbledon: Men: Ashley Cooper d. N. Fraser Women: Althea Gibson d. A. Mortimer
Kentukky Derby: Tim Tam
NCAA Basketball: Kenyucky d. Seattle (84-72)
NCAA Football: Lsu & Iowa
Sterophonic recordings, which use two separately recorded channels of sound to recreate a sense of space, come into commercial use. Now this is progress!
Friskees introduces the first dry cat food
Japan’s new Datsun (Model 211) cars begin shipping to the U.S. but only 52 will sell. An especially meager number since in 1958 America will import 430,808 passenger cars.
Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi patron saint of television. Her placement on the television set is said to guarantee good reception. Maybe I should send one to my cable operator.
Right after that, Pope Pius XII died. No "connection", I'm sure. Angelo G Roncalli crowned Pope John XXIII.
Harry Winston, Inc. donates the 45.52 carat Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution.
This is the peak year for drive-in movies with 4,063 outdoor screens nationwide.
In the worst recession since World War II, nearly 5.5 million people are out of work.
400 million frozen pot pies are sold in the U.S. There's a statistic you won't see just anywhere.
The first women are admitted to the British House of Lords. Oh, jolly good!
Bill and Mark Richards of Dana Point, CA, invented the first skateboard. They attached rollerskate wheels to a square board and sold them at their Val Surf Shop for $8 each.
The first domestic jet-airline passenger service is begun by National Airlines between New York City and Miami.
Rice-a-Roni, The San Francisco Treat, is introduced.
9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban.
Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 2.46%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 4.12%
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for his book Death in the Family Buy the book!
Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, CO. The all male facility won't go co-ed unto 1976.
Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate go on their killing spree.
The nuclear submarine Nautilus traverses the North Pole under the polar icecap.
The National Association of Broadcasters bans subliminal ads.An important story.
There is a 55.9% business failure rate.Chart for 1946-1964
The Chevrolet Impala is introduced!
Cocoa Krispies breakfast food is introduced by the Kellogg Company; it's 45.9% sugar.
Cocoa Puffs is introduced by General Mills; it contains 43% sugar.
This year in the Civil Rights movement.
Dr Ake Senning installs the first pacemaker.
American will import 430,808 passenger cars.
There are 36,981 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 8 accidents resulting in 125 fatalities.
Unemployment is 6.8%
U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $468.3 billion
All the Girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyones's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred Dog?
When a Quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties
and Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned,oil checked,and gas pumped,without asking,
all for free,every time? And got trading stamps to boot?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back if they failed...and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out,lay rubber or watch submarine races,and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car,
in the ignition,and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass wiyh your friends and saying things like,
"that cloud looks like a .."
Playing Baseball with no adults to help with the rules of the game?
Stuff came without safety caps because no one had yet tried to posion
a perfect stranger?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate
that awaited the stubent at home?
Basically we were in fear of our lives,but not because of drive-by shootings,
drugs,gangs,etc.
Our Parents and Grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Nancy Drew,the Hardy Boys,Laurel and Hardy,Howdy Dowdy and the peanut Gallery
The Lone Ranger,Roy and Dale,Trigger and Buttermilk.
Summers filled with bike rides,Baseball,Hula Hoops Bowling.
Candy cigarettes,Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored water inside,
Soda machines that dispensed glass bottles,tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack,Clove And Teaberry chewing gum,Home milk delivery
Newsreels before thm movie,P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix
Party lines
Pea shooters,45 rpm records,Green Stamps,HI-FI's
Metal ice cube trays with levers,momeograph paper,roller-skate keys
cork pop guns,Drive ins,Studebakers,washtub wringers,The fuller brush man
reel-to-reel tape records,tinkertoys,erector sets,lincoln logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers,5 cent packs of Baseball cards,penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline,Jiffy Pop popcorn
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
mistakes were corrected by exclaiming,"do over"
"race issue" ment arguing about who could run the fastest
Catching fireflies
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"
A foot of snow was a dream come true
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30 Min.commercials for action figures
"oly-oly-oxen-free made perfect sense
War was a card game
Base ball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle
taking drugs ment orange-flavored chewable aspirin
water ballons were the ultimate weapon