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1949 The Oldest Boomer is 3 years old

Median Family Income: $4,100

Minimum Wage 40 cents/hr
Gallon of Milk: 82 cents

Gallon of Gasoline: 27 cents
New Car: Buick Special: $1,945. Ford Custom: $1,472.
Loaf of Bread: 14 cents.

Ivory Soap: 27 cents/2 bars.

Pepsi-Cola: 22 cents/6 bottles.

First-class Stamp 3 cents.
Movies: “The Third Man,” “Gun Crazy,” “All The King’s men,” “Battleground,” “ The Heiress,” “A Letter to Three Wives,: Twelve O’clock High,: :White Heat,” “The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle”. “Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.” “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.” “Africa Screams,: starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. “Adventures of Sir Galahad,” “Batman and Robin.”
Broadway: “South Pacific,” “Death of a Salesman.”
TV: “The Lone Ranger” premiered. Bozo the Clown mad his TV debut on “Bozo’s Circus.” “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends.” “I Remember Mama,” “ The Life of Riley,: “Hopalong Cassidey,” “Easy Aces,” “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” “Voice of Firestone,” The Presidential inauguration is televised. “These Are My Children,” soap opera. The first detective series “Martin Kane, Private Eye” premieres. The first science fiction series “Captain video and His Video Rangers” premieres. The Three Stooges short films first aired.
Music: Dianh Shore, “buttons and Bows.” Perry Como, “Some Enchanted Evening.” Frankie Laine, “Mule Train.” Vaughn Monroe, “Ghost Riders In The Sky.” Gene Autry, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Buddy Holley cut a demo of Hank Snow’s “My Two- Timin’ woman” on a home tape recorder, his first known recording. Paul Williams, “Hucklebuck.” Eddy Arnorld, “Don’t rob another Man’s Castle.” Dianh shore & Buddy Clark, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Fats Domino, “The Fat Man.”

From the book BOOMERS  How We Changed The World by Richard A. Jordan

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