Flashback

•••••• TAKING YOU BACK TO 1964 •••••

COST OF LIVING IN 1964

· Average cost of new home • $13,050

· Average Income per Year • $6,000

· Average cost of new car • $3,500

· Gas per gallon • 30 cents

· Average monthly rent • $115

· Cost of US Postage stamp • 5 cents

· Ticket to movies • $1.25

· Loaf of bread • 21 cents

TOP MOVIES IN 1964

· My Fair Lady

· Mary Poppins

· It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

· The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1964 EVENTS

· THE BEATLES have 13 singles in Billboard’s Hot 100 at the same time, make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” makes them international pop stars

· Roy Orbison records “Pretty Woman”

· Simon and Garfunkel record “The Sound of Silence”

· Bob Dylan releases “The Times They Are a-Changin’”

· The Rolling Stones album “The Rolling Stones” debuts

· “Hello Dolly”, “Funny Girl”, and “Fiddler on the Roof” premier on Broadway

· First Ford Mustang manufactured

· Sony introduces the first VCR home video recorder

· Invention of the computer mouse, bubble wrap

· Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time

· Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian woman elected to Congress

· Kui Lee writes the hit song, “I’ll Remember You”

· Ground broken for the new Hawaii state capitol

· Ilikai hotel opens with hotel construction booming on neighbor islands as tourist arrivals pass half a million

· Tsunami generated by Alaskan earthquake reaches the Islands

· Congress authorizes war against N. Vietnam, eight islanders killed

· Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize

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