October 25th – Breaking News in 1955

by annemariedemyen, posted in News & Views - October 2021

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.

Me & my Mom

That’s it for today, folks!

Take care and have a great evening! 💞

32 thoughts on “October 25th – Breaking News in 1955”

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  21. 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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  26. 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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