Being at a loss for anything newsworthy today, I flashed back to the news headlines of 1955. See here.
1955 was a very prolific year, news wise. According to The People’s History website, these were some of the top headlines.
- The St. Laurence Seaway opens
- Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passenger
- The first McDonald’s was erected
- TV dinners, featuring fish sticks, went to market
- James Dean killed in auto accident in California
- Coca Cola, previously available in bottles only, was now sold in cans
- The average minimum wage in the USA reached $1.00 per hour
- 7 out of 10 US families owned a car
- USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, was launched
- The original Salk polio vaccine was introduced
- The Mickey Mouse Club debuted
- California Disneyland opened
- The Baghdad Pact was formed to unite the Middle East
- The Warsaw Pact was formed to unite eight Communist countries
- USA begins involvement in the Vietnam conflict
- Great Britain declared a State of Emergency due to National Rail Strike
- Great Britain also affected by winter storms causing road and rail problems for food and medical supplies deliveries
- Inventions of 1955: Pocket transistor radios, atomically generated power, Hovercraft, Lego, Velcro, polyurethane
1955 saw Rock and Roll hit a frenetic pace with the likes of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and the Platters. Families gathered around their television sets to watch the debut of shows like Gunsmoke, Lassie, and The Lone Ranger. Theatres were packed for the showing of hits such as Oklahoma, Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief, and The Seven Year Itch.
1955 celebrated the arrival of Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bruce Willis, Kris Jenner and Yours Truly. That is right, my mother gave birth to me in July 1955 as the parish priest filled the hospital with his live and apparently very loud rendition of Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around The Clock’ – the Number One hit in the USA at the time.
That’s it for today, folks!
Take care and have a great evening! 💞
Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie 
Thank you for the history lesson, Annmarie! Very interesting. That’s five years before I came along…
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You are welcome, John! I beat you by a few years. I didn’t want to miss the arrival of Lego and frozen fish sticks!
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Yum, I had frozen fish last night! 😂 Legos were fun to play with, I’m amazed at how popular they are today!
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We have frozen fish once in a while but haven’t had fish sticks since I met Dan. My kids hated fish sticks and they convinced him to take them off the menu. I still play with Lego when Dom comes over. 😏
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Your still a kid at heart! I hope the kids enjoy fresh fish. As a kid on the lake in Michigan circa 1967 thru 1971, our family gathered on the lake for fun water activities, grandpa mac would catch perch in the bay out front the house and cook them up. So good! Cripe, I can talk all day about that.
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My son Mark enjoys fresh fish, son Dan is ok with it, my daughter is violently allergic to ANY seafood. She cannot touch the stuff – not even Worcestershire Sauce (contains anchovies).
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series. A very good year all around.
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Nice. You found us some great news. Perfect. Thanks so much.
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It was clearly a special year in which for you to be born. I became 13 that year. No-one in our street had a car. I was another two years before we had a TV to gather round.
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I remember many of the happenings you mentioned. The 50’s were some of my favorite years, I was a teenager. 🙂
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I think so, Derrick! We were not well to do by any stretch but I am sure we always had a car or truck from years before I was born. I remember getting our first tv.
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I had no idea that 1955 was such a notable year. My grandson Rory would love that Lego came to market that year!
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Love reading this – memories are good!
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Thank you!
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Your post brought back a lot of great memories for me. One of my sons loves Legos still and he is in his 40’s.
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I am pretty sure my sons do as well – but they pretend they buy them for their kids. 😂. I didn’t even know they sell adult Lego kits. They have some amazing stuff out now!
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It is amazing how many children and adults enjoy them.
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Definitely a better pastime than a lot of things people do now days. And they are cool!
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For sure! Yes, they are.
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I came along a few years later. This reminded me of Benny Goodman’s Live at Carnegie Hall concert. A truly marvelllous recording.
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Will check it out!
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Fun facts. I was 15 and remember well most of that.
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My older sibling were teens in the fifties. I always thought that I missed out on the good times because I didn’t remember them.
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I was born in 1983. I couldn’t imagine being born back in the 50’s
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Lol. I am the youngest of six so I always feel like I am still young (compared to everyone else in my family). You sound like my grandkids. 😂. You are two years younger than my daughter (my youngest).
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Thanks Jonas. I am not in the market (or from the USA) but good luck with your business.
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Love this all. I was born a year and a month or so after you.
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That is cool! Those were interesting times. 💞
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