Just got my <b>Reminisce</b> magazine and thought I would share. <b>1952 A Few Prices:</b> Postage, first class, 3 cents Gasoline, 27 cents a gallon Chinese dinner, $1.50 Folding TV Table, $2.95 Canary, $9.95 Bulova Watch, $27.50 Annual Income, $3,660 <b>New in '52</b> >Gleem toothpaste >Magic Marker, felt-tip marker >Mad magazine >Mr. Potato Head >Mrs. Paul's fish sticks >Diet soft drinks >Holiday Inns >Cinerama >Tony the Tiger, Gr-r-reat! <b>Popular TV Shows:</b> The Red Skelton Show I Love Lucy Talent Scouts Texaco Star Theater Mama The Colgate C omedy Hour Gangbusters You Bet Your Life Fireside Theatre The Jack Benny Program <b>Also TV premieres were:</b> Dragnet The Jackie Gleason Show I've Got A Secret This Is Your Life Ozzie and Harriet I Married Joan Death Valley Days My Little Margie <b>News:</b> In Great Britain, King George VI dies. He had succeeded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII, who left to marry American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. King George's daughter, HRH Princess Elizabeth, and her husband, Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, are on their way to a tour of Australia and New Zealand when she becomes queen. Dr. Jonas Salk invents and begins testing a vaccine against polio, also known as infantile paralysis. The discovery comes as the US reports the worst polio epidenic in its history..57,628 cases. In the 1930s, '40s and early '50s, the specter of polio increasingly changed the way children lived and played in the US group activities were discouraged in efforts to curb the spread of the communicable disease. Children stricken with polio were placed in iron lungs..the large metal canisters that surrounded the body from the neck down and used air pressure to help force air in and out of the lungs. <b>Popular Books:</b> Fiction: The Silver Chalice The Caine Mutiny East of Eden My Cousin Rachel Steamboat Gothic Giant The Old Man and the Sea Nonfiction: The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version A Man Called Peter USA Confidential The Sea Around Us Tallulah The Power of Positive Thinking This I Believe This is Ike <b>Academy Award Winners:</b> A Streetcar Named Desire Vivian Leigh An American In Paris Gene Kelly <b>Popular Songs:</b> Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes The Glow Worm Wish You Were Here A Guy Is a Guy You Belong To Me Half as Much The Wheel of Fortune Blue Tango Kiss of Fire Why Don't you Believe Me Anywhere I Wander High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Interesting! thanks for posting, Linda. I wonder what Gangbusters was. Maybe a gameshow? that's one i don't recognize I didn't know iron lungs were still used then...i thought they were no longer by that year. My father met Jonas Salk on numerous occasions and my parents have met his wife. Interesting trivia...Mrs. Salk (now widow) is a very interesting lady. I am not sure if she is still alive, but I think so. She was the only woman to have dumped Pablo Picasso.
Interesting period the early 50's. I was watching an old movie Night Of The Demon (made around that time) and I was struck by the charm of the planes, the lovely houses, the gorgeous Pullman trains and the clothes. I think that in many ways society has gone backwards rather then making progress. Most things of today are so tacky and badly designed. Louise
My Gpa was just saying that he traded in his Cadillac in the 50s when gas went up to 27 cents a gallon, so he could get a more fuel efficient Volkswagon. Weird.
I don't think postage stamps went up much for years! I vaguely remember them hitting a nickle in the mid-late 1960s and my parents thinking the world was going to hell in a hand cart! Interesting about felt markers -- who knew? I thought they were from the 1960s! Cool info. I love stuff like this -- fascinating and completely useless information
Here too. :( I got gas the other day and realized this is the MOST that I have paid for gas in the 22 years I have been driving!! When we moved to Tennessee 5 years ago, we were paying less than 1/2 of that - about $1.10 to 1.20/gallon. (I also love this useless but fun information! )
what's missing on this list, is that I am so used to thinking of Elvis having hits all in the 50s...but he must have been a few years later than this and hadn't quite come on the scene yet.
