Monday, June 25, 2007

Time to play!!!

I love lists like these. I think they are great for birthdays or just for the heck of it. Since my birthday doesn't show up often, there's a lot of "heck of it". Scroll to the bottom of the page for a link to make your own.
Monday, February 29, 1960
Top News Headlines This Week:
Feb 29 - 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
Top Songs for 1960
Running Bear by Johnny Preston
Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis Presley
Stuck On You by Elvis Presley
Teen Angel by Mark Dinning
It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley
Theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own by Connie Francis
Cathy's Clown by Everly Brothers
Save the Last Dance for Me by Drifters
US President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon
Prices:
Bread: $0.20/loaf
Milk: $1.04/gal
US Vice President
Eggs: $0.90/doz
Car: $2,275
Gas: $0.31/gal
House: $18,500
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,227/yr
Min Wage: $1.00/hr
DOW Avg: 616
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: The Apartment directed By Billy Wilder
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8
People born on February 29 (not so many)
1468 - Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
1972 - Antonio Sabato Jr actor (Jagger Cates-General Hospital)
1960 Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker
1960 Tony Robbins, guy with big head
On TV in 1960
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Twilight Zone
The Flinstones
I Love Lucy
Hot New Toys in 1960
Chatty Cathy
Aggravation
Etch-A-Sketch
Troll Dolls
Top Books in 1960
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
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2 comments:

Marcia said...

Happy Belated birthday! Or early...

Elvis was quite the hit list hog, eh?

smariek said...

Oooh... gas was cheap back then!