When I was twenty ...the President of the US was Dwight Eisenhower and gas cost 25 cents a gallon. Elvis Presley was swoony and we always watched the Ed Sullivan Show. Also Candid Camera was great!
The house that Bob and I bought in 1959-60 cost about $10,000. I'll have to look up what my salary was and Bob's too, but accordingly to Wikipedia, the average yearly wage was $4,600. That sounds about right. In 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected President and Lyndon Johnson Vice President. The war in Vietnam started that year too.
More Wikipedia info: Average monthly rent was $98.00 and a can of beef ravioli cost 30 cents. Gas was still at 25 cents. On to 1963, when Mark was three and Scott was one and I was 25. I remember clearly when I heard that John Kennedy was shot -- I was watching the one soap opera I permitted myself around lunch time and it was interrupted by the news. It was so incredibly shocking and the next few days were very hard to bear. No one could believe that this very popular President (in our more liberal crowd) could be just shot dead. It was sad, but even more we were so outraged that this could happen in our country. It was just the beginning of that terrible era, of course, with Bobby Kennedy assassinated and then Martin Luther King. It seemed like there was no civilization any more.
On a lighter note, the Beatles were comin' on! I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show, but it wasn't until we got to Seattle and in the University scene that we really understood what this new music was about -- and loved it.
SO that's my view of what was going on my world when I was in my twenties. What about yours?
Cheers to you all!
Mary Lou
The house that Bob and I bought in 1959-60 cost about $10,000. I'll have to look up what my salary was and Bob's too, but accordingly to Wikipedia, the average yearly wage was $4,600. That sounds about right. In 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected President and Lyndon Johnson Vice President. The war in Vietnam started that year too.
More Wikipedia info: Average monthly rent was $98.00 and a can of beef ravioli cost 30 cents. Gas was still at 25 cents. On to 1963, when Mark was three and Scott was one and I was 25. I remember clearly when I heard that John Kennedy was shot -- I was watching the one soap opera I permitted myself around lunch time and it was interrupted by the news. It was so incredibly shocking and the next few days were very hard to bear. No one could believe that this very popular President (in our more liberal crowd) could be just shot dead. It was sad, but even more we were so outraged that this could happen in our country. It was just the beginning of that terrible era, of course, with Bobby Kennedy assassinated and then Martin Luther King. It seemed like there was no civilization any more.
On a lighter note, the Beatles were comin' on! I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show, but it wasn't until we got to Seattle and in the University scene that we really understood what this new music was about -- and loved it.
SO that's my view of what was going on my world when I was in my twenties. What about yours?
Cheers to you all!
Mary Lou
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