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Here's mine:
Bread: $0.30/loaf
Min Wage: $2.30/hr
Car: $5,418
Eggs: $1.28/doz
Avg Income: $16,870/yr
Best Picture: Rocky

Just some stuff when I was born!

For me (8-15-69)

Headline: Woodstock Music and Art Fair Opens In NY

Bread $0.23
Car $3,400
Gas $0.35
Stamp $0.06

Born on the same day: Julia Child and Napoleon Bonaparte

Top Selling book: Slaughterhouse - Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

OH MY....I must be the oldest....groan
Look at how cheap bread was then...

Nov 7 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
Bread: $0.09/loaf
Milk: $0.62/gal
Eggs: $0.63/doz
Car: $1,225
Gas: $0.21/gal
House: $8,649
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $2,675/yr
Min Wage: $0.30/hr
DOW Avg: 152

Imagine buying a house for under $50,000! Just curious: what does DOW stand for?

Meme, minimum wage .30 an hour? Are you sure you typed the date in right???
I was born in 1960 and it was an even $1.00 an hour then. :confused3:

WOW!

Tigger, we must be the same age Your stuff was exactly the same as mine. You guys need to move to Nova Scotia, my sister in law just bought a big 5 bedroom house for $50,000

Wow: on mybirthdate Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina !

Bread: $0.20/loaf
Milk: $1.04/gal
Eggs: $0.90/doz
Car: $2,275
Gas: $0.31/gal
House: $18,500
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,227/yr
Min Wage: $1.00/hr

I was born on September 24, 1973.

1973 Prices US President
Bread: $0.27/loaf Richard M. Nixon
Milk: $1.36/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.22/doz Gerald R. Ford
Car: $4,052 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.39/gal Best Picture: The Sting
House: $35,500
Stamp: $0.08/ea
Avg Income: $13,622/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 851 Directed By George Roy Hill
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon
in Save The Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson
in A Touch Of Class

Top News Headlines This Week:
Sep 24 - St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals Sep 24 - C J van Houten, I van Houten-Groeneveld & T Gehrels discovers Sep 24 - Guinea-Bissau declares independence Sep 24 - asteroid #5493 Spitzweg Sep 25 - 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days Sep 25 - L V Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3157, #4303 Savitskij, #4811,


Top Songs for 1973
Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree by Dawn
Crocodile Rock by Elton John Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce
My Love by Paul McCartney & Wings Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack
Top of the World by Carpenters You're So Vain by Carly Simon
Keep On Truckin' by Eddie Kendricks Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips

People born on September 24
1755 - John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby)
1931 - Anthony Newley actor/song writer/singer (Dr Doolittle)
1962 - Joseph Kennedy II (Rep-D-Mass)

On TV in 1973
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Columbo Emergency
The Bob Newhart Show The Brady Bunch The Waltons
All in the Family M*A*S*H Hawaii Five-0
The Odd Couple

Hot New Toys in 1973
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle The Lone Ranger Action Figure Boggle
Perfection Dungeons & Dragons Fisher-Price Movie Viewer
Shrinky Dinks

Top Books in 1973
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

CLEO.....

Yep I typed the date right....
I was born on Nov. 7th. 1944.....

Meme

I'm 25, too!

Here's mine:

1965 Prices
Bread: $0.21/loaf
Milk: $1.05/gal
Eggs: $1.00/dozen
Car: $2,350
Gas: $0.31/gal
Best Picture: The Sound Of Music

House: $21,500
Stamp: $0.05/ea
Avg Income: $7,704/yr
Min Wage: $1.25/hr
DOW Avg: 969

wow!!!! Thanks for sharing this with us, Cat, this was really cool!