TODAY WE TAKE YOU TO 1950, SO WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

The median family income was $3,210.00 to $3,300 a year and milk was still delivered to the doorstep. First Modern Credit Card Introduced, the Diners Club credit card was the first multi-purpose charge card and within a year the company had over 40,000 members. First Organ Transplant First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip

AND HERE’S WHAT WE PAID IN 1950…….

Average Cost of new house - $8,450.00 - Cost of a gallon of Gas - 18 cents - Average Cost of a new car - $1,510.00 - Stromburg Black and White Television - $249.95 - Ball Point Pen - 25 cents – AND WE DROVE………….. Ford Zephyr is First Produced by the Ford Motor Company in the United Kingdom.

James Dean gets his break when he appears in a Pepsi

Commercial

Popular Films …………..

*Cinderella-Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics

series, had a limited release on February 15, 1950 by RKO

*Samson and Delilah

*Sunset Blvd

*Father of The Bride

*King Solomon's Mines

*Annie Get Your Gun

WE WATCHED…….

Written in 1950 and set in approximately 1940, the first-published book of The Chronicles of Narnia and the best known book of the series. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

The Andersons

Betty Margaret Jim

Robert Young and Jane Wyatt

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