J4F – Way Back Wednesday: 10/15/1955
Check out what was hip in 1955.
Way Back Wednesday 10/15/1955
Top U.S. Song – Yellow Rose of Texas – Mitch Miller
Average cost for a gallon of gas – $0.23
Average cost for a gallon of milk – $0.92
Average cost for a postage stamp – $0.03
Average cost for a dozen eggs – $0.61
Average cost of a new home – $22,000.00
Average cost of a pound of coffee – $0.93
President of the United States – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Popular Movies – Rebel Without a Cause, The Night of the Hunter, Lady and the Tramp, Illegal, The Cobweb, To Catch a Thief, East of Eden, The Seven Year Itch, My Sister Eileen, Diabolique
Popular Books – Lolita, Vladimir Naboko; The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis; The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis; Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson; The Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson; Beezus and Ramona, Beverly Cleary; Surpirsed by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, C.S. Lewis; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams; The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
Happy Birthday to – Keyshia Cole, Tito Jackson, Penny Marshall, Ginuwine, Arron Afflalo, Stacy Peralta, Jim Palmer, Lee Iacocca, Fred Hoiberg, Michael Lewis
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