1947 The Oldest Boomer is 1 year old.
Cost of the Average House: $5,900
Apartment: 3 rooms, furnished, $20/ week
Median family income: $3,000
Minimum wage: 40 cents/hr.
Gallon of milk: 79 cents Gallon Gasoline: 23 cents
New Car: Buick Roadmaster, convertible: $2,t51 Plymouth P15 Club Coupe: $1,445
Loaf of Bread: 13 cents First-class Stamp: 3 cents Idaho Potatoes: 5 cents/lb.
TV: “Howdy Doody.” Kukla, Fran and Ollie” which premiered as the hour-long Junior Jamboree. “Meet the Press.” The Louis-Walcott fight is viewed by 1,000,000 people. The first telecast of a World Series game:Ny Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers. Harry Truman becomes the first President to make an address to the public on TV from the White House. The Groucho Marx quiz show, “You Bet Your Life.” Kraft Television Theater, “ Mary Kay and Johnny”
Back in the Day romance meant more than just a card and some flowers.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
by Teilhard de Chardin
From the book I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS by Douglas Block
A great book of inspirational stuff, cool.
“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), which was written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin. It was based on a novel by Anita Loos.
