J4F – Way Back Wednesday: 7/23/1958
Read on to see what was going on in 1958.
Way Back Wednesday 7/23/1958
Top U.S. Song – Coasters – Yakety Yak
Average cost for a gallon of gas – $0.24
Average cost for a gallon of milk – $1.01
Average cost for a postage stamp – $0.04
Average cost for a loaf of bread – $0.19
Average cost of a new home – $30,000.00
President of the United States – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Popular Movies – Vertigo, Queen of Outer Space, Touch of Evil, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Gigi, South Pacific, The Long, Hot Summer, The Blob, A Night to Remember
Popular Books Released – Night, Elie Wiesel; Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe; Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote; The Once and Future King, T.H. White; The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
Happy Birthday To – Slash, Daniel Radcliffe, Woody Harrelson, Marlon Wayans, Monica Lewinsky, Gary Payton, Alison Krauss, Gerald Wallace, David Essex, Don Imus, Nomar Garciaparra
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