ClassofBoone'60/Nostalgia
A LITTLE NOSTALGIA
A Few Facts to Remember and Ponder!| GENERAL FACTS OF INTEREST: | |
| President | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Vice President | Richard Nixon |
| Elected by 113,057 votes | John F Kennedy |
| Population | 177,830,000 |
| Unemployment | 3,852,000 |
| National Debt | $286,300,000,000 |
| Average annual income | $4,743 - $5,199.00 |
| Soviet missiles: | Shoot U-2 spy plane with CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers |
| Fidel Castro | Nationalizes all American property |
| Israel: | Captures Adoft Eichmann |
| Hispanic Immigration: | 576 entered the US |
| Total people born outside US: | 179,325 |
| Teacher's Salary | $5.174 |
| Minimum Wage | $1.00/hr |
| Life Expectancy Males | 66.6 years |
| Life Expectancy Females | 73.1 years |
| Auto deaths | 21.3 per 100,000 |
| Entering college | 850,000 freshmen |
| Average cost of new house | $12,675.00 |
| Average monthly rents | $98.00 |
| Movie Tickets | $1.00 |
| Gasoline | 25¢ / gallon |
| US Postage Stamp | 4¢ / each |
| Milk cost | $1.04 per gallon |
| Bacon | 65¢ per pound |
| Eggs | 30¢ per dozen |
| Hamburger meat | 58¢ per pound |
| Load of bread | 20¢ each |
| Aluminum cans | First used |
| Xerox | First commercial document reproduction machine |
| Book | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer Prize) |
| FADS: | Barbie Doll, GI Joe, the troll, slot cars,, bouffant hair, crew cuts, plaid-button down shirts, knee-length dresses , pill-box hats |
| Music Facts: | Elvis returned from the Army |
| Chubby Checkers sang The Twist | |
| Motown Records brought blues music | |
| Modular synthesizer (mood music) was developed | |
| Computers were used in music composition | |
| Movies: (a few of the top) | The Apartment (Academy Award Winner) |
| The Little Shop of Horrors | |
| Psycho | |
| Spartacus | |
| The Magnificent Seven | |
| The Time Machine | |
| Television Favorites: | The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) |
| The Real McCoys (ABC) | |
| Rawhide (CBS) | |
| Items of Interest by month: | |
January |
Willie Mays signed with Giants for $85,000 |
| February | Jack Paar walked off his live TV show |
| March | Elvis Presley ends 2 years in US Army |
| April | First weather satellite is lunched |
| May | Milwaukee baseball game postponed due to dense fog |
| June | Roy Orbison sang "Only the Lonely" |
| July | Dr. Barbara Moore walked 3,207 miles (LA to NYC) |
| August | First photo is bounced from satellite to Cedar Rapids, IO |
| September | First animation prime-time TV show "The Flintstones" |
| October | John F Kennedy starts The Peace Corps |
| November | The 10,000,000th copywrite registration is written |
| December | The Washington Senators join Am. Baseball League |