J4F: Way Back Wednesday – 8/13/1968
Check out everything going on at this time back in 1968.
Way Back Wednesday 8/13/1968
Top U.S. Song – The Young Rascals – People Got To Be Free
Average cost for a gallon of gas – $0.34
Average cost for a gallon of milk – $1.07
Average cost for a postage stamp – $0.05
Average cost for a dozen eggs – $0.53
Average cost of a new home – $26,600.00
Life expectancy – 70.2 years
President of the United States – Lyndon B. Johnson
Popular Movies – Planet of the Apes, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Barbarella, Where Eagles Dare, Rosemary’s Baby, Funny Girl, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hang’Em High, Firecreek
Popular Books – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick; A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle; Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe; Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
Happy Birthday to – Alfred Hitchcock, Fidel Castro, Danny Bonaduce, Kevin Tighe, Dan Fogelberg, Demarcus Cousins, Bobby Clarke, John Slattery, Ben Hogan
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