HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...

 

YOU ASK:   RICK – HOW OLD ARE YOU TODAY ?

Here is a hint.  I was born on a Sunday morning - February 13th.  These are some important events and facts about the year I was born:

 

In this year -  consumerism takes off in a big way with the sale of some 7.9 million cars in the US with 7 out of 10 families now owning a motor car, and new laws were put in place requiring seat belts to be installed on all new cars.  

·       The first McDonalds was erected this year and more fast foods and TV dinners are appearing including fish fingers.

 

·       The first cans of Coca-Cola are sold up till then it had only been sold in bottles.

 

·        Rock and Roll music continues to grow in popularity with more idols including Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry and The Platters, and young men's fashion matches the times with pink shirts and charcoal grey suits.

 

·       Disneyland opens in California.

 

·       "The Mickey Mouse Club" debuts on ABC

 

·        'In God We Trust' is added to all US paper currency

 

·        Rosa Parks arrest in Montgomery Alabama sets the American Civil Rights Movement in Motion.

 

·       Average Cost of new house:  $10.950.00 

 

·       Average Monthly Rent:  $87.00

 

·       Average Yearly Wages:  $4.130.00

 

·        Minimum Hourly Rate:  $1.00 

TTHE YEAR WAS 1955 ---   I AM ... OLD