- Car: $2,275.00
- Gasoline: $0.31 per gallon
- House: $18,800.00
- Bread: $0.21 per loaf
- Milk: $0.60 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: $0.04
- Average Annual Salary: $6,471.00
- Minimum Wage: $1.15 per hour
What was on television?
- The Defenders
- Dennis the Menace
- Lassie
- Candid Camera
- Bullwinkle Show
- Car 54 Where Are You?
- The Rifleman
- Ben Casey
- I've Got a Secret
- The Price is Right
- Bugs Bunny (One of my personal favorites!)
- Dick Van Dyke Show
- Dobie Gillis
- Steve Allen Show
- Naked City
- Bob Newhart Show
- Donna Reed Show
- The Untouchables
- Dr. Kildare
- Hazel
- Route 66
- The Flintstones (in primetime, no less)
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The Avengers
Newton Minnow in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters said:
"But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
"You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience-participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western badmen, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons. And, endlessly, commercials--many screaming, cajoling and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you will see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, try it."
If only he knew . . . .
What new things were introduced?
Johnson & Johnson introduces Tylenol.
IBM introduces the Selectric typewriter.
Jim & Linda Long introduce their first child: me.
1 comment:
Those were so low prices!!!!
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