40 Years Ago

1969
The year I graduated from high school.

The average cost of a new home $15,550.00

The average cost of a new car $3,270.00

A new Toyota Corona $1,950.00

Gasoline 35 cents a gallon!

Popular films included:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

True Grit

Easy Rider

Funny Girl

The Love Bug

Music Chart toppers included:

The Who

The Rolling Stones

Led Zeppelin
The Doors

James Brown

Janis Joplin

The Beatles

Crosby, Stills and Nash

Simon and Garfunkle

Fleetwood Mac

Pink Floyd

Jimi Hendrix

Elton John
CCR

And so many more..................

So much history in just one year!

Flash back 40 years................

*July 20th, "One Small Step For Man, A Giant Leap For Mankind"

Neil Armstrong & Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to

set foot on the moon. Apollo 11's Saturn 5 rocket lifted off on July 16th.

Trivia: The mileage a Saturn 5 rocket gets?

7 Inches Per Gallon!!

WOODSTOCK!

At least 350,000 attended the festival on a farm in New York.
What Rolling Stone Magazine calls the greatest event in Rock & Rolls history!

Jimi Hendrix

*The war in Vietnam's weekly death toll was 300 -400 U.S. Soldiers!

*Richard Nixon became President

*The Concorde made its maiden flight

*Rowen & Martin's "Laugh-In" was one of our favorite shows.

*Sesame Street & the Muppets made it's debut on PBS

*The Volkswagen Beetle was bugging Detroit but delighting
American drivers

*Mickey Mantle retired from the Yankee's

*Jennifer Anniston, Brett Favre & Catherine Zeta-Jones were born!

*Mario Puzo made "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse"
a popular lexicon with his best seller "The Godfather".

*Cult leader Charles Manson and followers murder actress
Sharon Tate & 4 others

Sen Robert Kennedy's killer, Sirhan Sirhan, is sentenced
for the 1968 murder

*The U.S. institutes the draft lottery to determine who gets drafted for the Vietnam war.

*Anti-War protests were taking place in colleges from
Berkley to Columbia. 250,000 march on Washington in protest of the Vietnam War

*America learned about the massacre at My Lai where
567 villagers were murdered by U.S. soldiers.

*Chappaquiddick / Sen Edward Kennedy, a bridge & A
pregnant Mary Jo Kopechne

*Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Established

*CCR, Creedence Clearwater Revival, had the #1 album
of the year "Green River".

*Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast killing 248 people.

*STAR TREK

is allowed to stay on for another year due to a fan mail campaign However, the network took away it's best writters and cut it's budget.

*The first ATM was installed

*Charles de Gaulle resigns as French President.

*Judy Garland "Dorothy" dies

*The microprocessor is invented, opening the way for the computer revolution.

*The Internet was invented by the U.S. military

*I lived in Lantana and was driving my 1964 Studebaker Daytona Convertible

In the Fall was the debut of an American icon. What would one day be THE most sought after collector muscle car and which would be reborne 37 years after its demise, due to government regulations.

I would buy one a couple of years later! Purple....They called the color "Plumb Crazy"! I bought it used and eventually had it painted blue.

Sources are The Palm Beach Post and http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/