Kickin it Retro Community Group
Welcome to Kickin' It Retro! We offer a place filled with fun & games,and a little bit of everything else thrown in! So,kick back and enjoy yourself. Hope you feel right at home here! We are all family at Kickin' It Retro!
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/yearsanddecades.html
Some highlights for me:
Minimum Wage is $1.60 an hour
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of Negro Civil Rights Movement is killed by James Earl Ray which leads to Violence and Race Riots in US Cities
President Lyndon Johnson orders an end to the bombing of North Vietnam
Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.
The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents
The Beatles create Apple Records and record "Hey Jude" as the first single on the label
Popular Films were: The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bonnie and Clyde, Valley of the Dolls, The Odd Couple, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary's Baby
What were things like when you were born?
Some highlights for me:
Minimum Wage is $1.60 an hour
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of Negro Civil Rights Movement is killed by James Earl Ray which leads to Violence and Race Riots in US Cities
President Lyndon Johnson orders an end to the bombing of North Vietnam
Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.
The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents
The Beatles create Apple Records and record "Hey Jude" as the first single on the label
Popular Films were: The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bonnie and Clyde, Valley of the Dolls, The Odd Couple, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary's Baby
What were things like when you were born?
Average Cost of new house $12,500.00
Average Income per year $5,315.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 27 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,850.00
Bacon for 1LB 67 cents
Eggs per dozen 30 cents
US Cuban Exiles and CIA mount unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro known as the Bay of Pigs
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
First Direct US Military Involvement in Vietnam
Pampers the first disposable diaper introduced
(Yep, a lot of shit happened that year)
ELVIS WAS KING
cold war, was in high gear
monster flicks were everywhere
everything was cheaper,lol