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Fun Facts - 1950s
Vintage Movie Trailers The Early 1950s Preview
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Can you believe!
The population of the world is 2.52 billion
Walt Disney's Cinderella opens in theaters.
Sugar Pops are introduced.
RCA 45 RPM record attachment
Silly Putty is introduced!
Pillsbury and General Mills offered prepared cake mixes.
CBS begins broadcasting in color.
Ball-O-Fire gumballs are available.
The stuff of grilled cheese sandwiches arrived, KRAFT� Deluxe process cheese slices are introduced.
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Port Authority open in NYC
Seeburg starts selling jukeboxes that play 45 RPM records. This is the jukebox that ends up in the soda shops, bowling alleys and bars.
Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner .
Smokey the Bear gains national popularity.
Minute Rice arrives.
Haloid Corporation (later renamed Xerox) develops the first xerographic copy machine.
2,200 drive-in movie theatres, twice as many as in 1949 .
Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950.
Cartoonist Hank Ketcham created and introduces "Dennis the Menace."
10,500,000 TV sets in 10,400,000 homes.
The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas.
Unemployment is 5.3%
In 1950 ....
A House cost: $14,500
Average income: $3,216
Ford car: $1339-$2262
Admiral "home entertainment" TV system: $549.50
12" records: $4.85
10" records: $2.85
Milk: .82 cents
Gas: .20 cents
Bread .14 cents
Postage stamp: .03 cents
Sirloin steak: $.77 lb
In 1951
3,823,000 babies were born, and life expectancy was 68.4 years .
For the month of October we have the following birthdays:
10/02 Sting
10/03 Dave Winfield
10/05 Karen Allen
10/07 John "Cougar" Mellencamp
10/08 Johnny Ramone
10/13 John Ford Coley
10/18 Pam Dawber
10/18 Terry McMillan
10/20 Alan Greenwood
10/23 Michael Rupert
10/30 Harry Hamlin
In 1951 ....
A House: $16,000
Average income: $3,515
Ford car: $1424-$2253
Milk: .92 cents
Gas: .20 cents
Bread .16 cents
Postage stamp: .03 cents
14 oz. can of Hershey�s Syrup: .17 cents
Sliced Bacon: .63 cents per lb
Coca Cola, 6 bottles: .37 cents
The ventriloquist dummy for Jerry Mahoney : $14.95
Vintage Movie Trailers The Late 1950s, Early 1960s Preview
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