Richard Nixon is President and Vietnam isn't going anywhere.
It's a crazy time. It is the year of Woodstock...and the Manson killings. A time that is both about peace and violence.
Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon and into history books.
The median household income is $8,389.00.
The Bestselling Novel of the Year: Portney's Complaint by Phillip Roth.
The Best Picture Oscar: Midnight Cowboy starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
If you were a mom, you were wearing this:
If you were a little braver, you were rocking this look:
But you better have been able to play a guitar with your teeth.
The world was changed forever.
Can you imagine making $8300 a year? Cripes!! I wish that was the median income today, but that my household was still making what we make now... then we'd be millionaires. :)
ReplyDeleteAnother great flashback post! Thanks, Marsha.
ReplyDeleteI'm torn between the rockin' look and the Mom look. Both cool.
And a salary of $8,300 a year, but that was when milk cost, like, a buck a gallon, a gallon of gas was 37 cents. And your average house was mortgaged at $27 grand or so. And the interest rate was a mosquito bite compared to what it is today.
Portnoy's Complaint, actually had, like, depth. And, Midnight Cowboy - Great flick. Dustin, one of the loves of my life.
I'm a movie buff, too.
1969 was the year I graduated from high school and started college. It was a real transitional year for me, but indeed a memorable year. When I got a job in 1970, I remember getting paid $2.05 an hour and I was so thrilled after I'd been there a while and they gave me a five cent raise. But seemed like you could really stretch that money out. In TN gas at that time was in the 25 cent a gallon range. In 1966 my parents bought their large brick home on a very large plot of land for @$20,000. Now it's valued in the $220,000 range.
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Thanks for the comments! It was such an interesting time and yes, the median salary went much farther then! I think I pay almost that much in lunch money for my son....
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