Now Let's Take A Look At That Wonderful Year..1958.

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Now Let\'s Take A Look At That Wonderful Year..1958.

This is from Reminisce magazine.

Annual Income,
$4,707

Harvard University Tuition,
$1250

Libby's Tomato Juice,
five 46-oz cans, $1

Swiss Steak,
75 cents a lb.

Sunkist Oranges,
5 lbs for 49 cents

Milk
42 cents per half gallon

Kraft Caramels,
37 cents per 1-lb box

Gasoline,
30 cents a gal

Nathan's Hot Dog,
25 cents

First Class Stamp,
increases to 4 cents

<b>New in 58:</b>

Rice-a-Roni
Diet Rite soda
Pizza Hut chain
American Express card
B.C. comic strip
Cocoa Krispies cereal
Cocoa Puffs cereal
Chevrolet Impala
Creamy Jif peanut butter
Lego blocks
Hula Hoop

<b>Movies:</b>

Gigi with Lelie Caron and Maurice Chevalier

South Pacific with Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor

<b>Popular Books

Fiction</b>

Doctor Zhivago
Anatomy of a Murder
Lolita
Around the World with Auntie Mame
From the Terrace

<b>Non-Fiction</b>

Kids Say the Darndest Things
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book
Dear Abby
The New Testament in Modern English

<b>On the Charts</b>

(Elvis enters Army)
Don't
Hard Headed Woman
All I Have to D Is Dream
Bird Dog
Poor Little Fool
The Purple People Eater
Get a Job
Yakety Yak
Johnny B. Goode
Chantilly Lace
It's Only Make Believe
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Valare
Catch a Falling Star
Who's Sorry Now
It's All in the Game
Tequila
Tom Dooley

(now who can name the artists?)

<b>Television</b>

Gunsmoke
The Rifleman
Wagon Train
Have Gun Will Travel
Maverick
Tales of Wells Fargo
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

(lots of westerns, huh?)

The Danny Thomas Show
The Real McCoys
I've Got a Secret
77 Sunset Strip
The Donna Reed Show

 

[BagDiva]

that fun....relevant to me born then...interesting..

 

[amandainvermont]

Ack. I haven't thought of most of those songs in years - and I know the words to almost all of them. I was 12 and probably spent a lot of time listening to the radio.