Today I begin the 54th. year on my journey through life. No need to look back since whatever happened or did not happen will stay that way forever. I look forward to many more years on this journey. Where is my journey taking me? Well, that to me is not what matters, what matters is what I do on my way through my journey of life. To think of where my journey is taking me would mean the end of the journey, and I don't want to end it just yet. I want to continue and be surprised about where it takes me.
How have things changed since 1955?
A gallon of milk cost: .97.
A loaf of bread: .17.
Minimum wage: 1.00.
A brand new car: 1,900.00.
The phrase "In God we trust" started to be printed on all paper currency.
Emmett Till, a black fourteen year old teenager is murdered for not showing respect to a white woman in Money, Miss.
African American Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery Alabama
Technology 1955
First pocket transistor radios available
Fish Fingers are marketed by Bird's Eye
The first Atomically generated power is used in the US
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Atomic Clock England
Hovercraft England by Christopher Cockerell
Lego Gotfried Kirk Christiansen
Velcro Switzerland by George De Mestral
Popular Culture 1955
Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain.
First riot at an Elvis Presley concert takes place in Jacksonville, FL
"The $64,000 Question" the popular US television game show starts
James Dean’s stars in the movie East of Eden
James Dean killed in car accident near Cholame, California
First Guinness Book of World Records Published
"The Mickey Mouse Club" debuts on ABC
Popular Films
Oklahoma
The Quatermass Xperiment
Rebel without a Cause
To Catch A Thief
The Quatermass Xperiment
The seven year itch
Popular Singers
Elvis Presley
Bill Haley and the Comets " Rock Around The Clock"
Chuck Berry
Fats Domino.
The Platters
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