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Here's my world when I was 18...
1968 Economy / Prices
Economy
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
Population: 200,706,052
Life expectancy: 70.2 years
Dow-Jones
High: 985
Low: 825
Federal spending: $178.13 billion
Federal debt: $368.7 billion
Inflation: 4.2%
Consumer Price Index: 34.8
Unemployment: 3.8%
Prices
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $7,743.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 ($0.06 as of 1/7/68)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.34
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.07
1968 Music
Billboard Top 10 (Buy CD)
1. Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
2. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band
3. Dock Of The Bay, The (Sittin' On) - Otis Redding
4. People Got To Be Free - The Rascals
5. Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
6. Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
7. Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops
8. Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
9. Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
10. Horse, The - Cliff Nobles & Co.
Top Albums
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel (CD)
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holdings Company (CD)
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles (CD)
The Beatles - Beatles (CD)
The Graduate - Soundtrack (CD)
Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell
Best New Artist: José Feliciano
Best Pop Duo or Group: “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel
Best Pop Female Vocal: “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” Dionne Warwick
Best Pop Male Vocal: “Light My Fire,” José Feliciano
Record of the Year: “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel
Song of the Year: “Little Green Apple”
1968 TV
Americas Top 20 TV Favorites
1 ) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
2 ) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
3 ) Bonanza
4 ) Mayberry R.F.D.
5 ) Family Affair
6 ) Gunsmoke
7 ) Julia
8 ) The Dean Martin Show
9 ) Here's Lucy
10 ) The Beverly Hillbillies
11 ) Mission Impossible
12 ) Bewitched
13 ) The Red Skelton Hour
14 ) My Three Sons
15 ) The Glen Campbell Hour
16 ) Ironside
17 ) The Virginian
18 ) The F.B.I.
19 ) Green Acres
20 ) Dragnet
Emmy Awards
Drama
Best Drama - NET Playhouse (NET)
Best Actor - Carl Betz, Judd for the Defense
Best Actress - Barbara Bain, Mission: Impossible
Supporting Actor - Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes
Supporting Actress - Susan Saint James, The Name of the Game
Comedy
Best Comedy - Get Smart! (NBC)
Best Actor - Don Adams, Get Smart!
Best Actress - Hope Lange, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Best Variety- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC)
1968 Movies
$$$ -Top Movie Money Makers
2001: A Space Odyssey $56,715,371
Planet of the Apes $26,000,000
Star! $4,000,000
Speedway $3,000,000
Other New Movie Releases
Barbarella
Charlie Bubbles
Charly
Faces
Funny Girl
Hang 'Em High
Oliver!
Petulia
Pretty Poison
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Lion in Winter
The Producers
The Thomas Crown Affair
Yellow Submarine
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson: Charly
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl tied with Katharine Hepburn: Lion in Winter
Best Director: Carol Reed: Oliver!
Best Picture: John Woolf: Oliver!
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson: The Subject Was Roses
Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon: Rosemary's Baby
1968 Economy / Prices
Economy
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
Population: 200,706,052
Life expectancy: 70.2 years
Dow-Jones
High: 985
Low: 825
Federal spending: $178.13 billion
Federal debt: $368.7 billion
Inflation: 4.2%
Consumer Price Index: 34.8
Unemployment: 3.8%
Prices
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $7,743.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 ($0.06 as of 1/7/68)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.34
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.07
1968 Music
Billboard Top 10 (Buy CD)
1. Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
2. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band
3. Dock Of The Bay, The (Sittin' On) - Otis Redding
4. People Got To Be Free - The Rascals
5. Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
6. Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
7. Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops
8. Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
9. Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
10. Horse, The - Cliff Nobles & Co.
Top Albums
Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel (CD)
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holdings Company (CD)
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles (CD)
The Beatles - Beatles (CD)
The Graduate - Soundtrack (CD)
Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell
Best New Artist: José Feliciano
Best Pop Duo or Group: “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel
Best Pop Female Vocal: “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” Dionne Warwick
Best Pop Male Vocal: “Light My Fire,” José Feliciano
Record of the Year: “Mrs. Robinson,” Simon and Garfunkel
Song of the Year: “Little Green Apple”
1968 TV
Americas Top 20 TV Favorites
1 ) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
2 ) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
3 ) Bonanza
4 ) Mayberry R.F.D.
5 ) Family Affair
6 ) Gunsmoke
7 ) Julia
8 ) The Dean Martin Show
9 ) Here's Lucy
10 ) The Beverly Hillbillies
11 ) Mission Impossible
12 ) Bewitched
13 ) The Red Skelton Hour
14 ) My Three Sons
15 ) The Glen Campbell Hour
16 ) Ironside
17 ) The Virginian
18 ) The F.B.I.
19 ) Green Acres
20 ) Dragnet
Emmy Awards
Drama
Best Drama - NET Playhouse (NET)
Best Actor - Carl Betz, Judd for the Defense
Best Actress - Barbara Bain, Mission: Impossible
Supporting Actor - Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes
Supporting Actress - Susan Saint James, The Name of the Game
Comedy
Best Comedy - Get Smart! (NBC)
Best Actor - Don Adams, Get Smart!
Best Actress - Hope Lange, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Best Variety- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC)
1968 Movies
$$$ -Top Movie Money Makers
2001: A Space Odyssey $56,715,371
Planet of the Apes $26,000,000
Star! $4,000,000
Speedway $3,000,000
Other New Movie Releases
Barbarella
Charlie Bubbles
Charly
Faces
Funny Girl
Hang 'Em High
Oliver!
Petulia
Pretty Poison
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Lion in Winter
The Producers
The Thomas Crown Affair
Yellow Submarine
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson: Charly
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl tied with Katharine Hepburn: Lion in Winter
Best Director: Carol Reed: Oliver!
Best Picture: John Woolf: Oliver!
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson: The Subject Was Roses
Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon: Rosemary's Baby
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Here's my world when I was 18...
Dow-Jones
High: 985
Low: 825
Prices
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $7,743.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 ($0.06 as of 1/7/68)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.34
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.07
Dow-Jones
High: 985
Low: 825
Prices
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $7,743.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 ($0.06 as of 1/7/68)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.34
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.07
Dow
High: 9143.09
Low: 8951.27
avg gas: $1.06
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94 Chevy Blazer - brother crashed.
94 2dr accord - h22 swap, rear ended.
03 1.8 gti - waiting for her bag of chips.
:crazyr: :slap: :hsughr: :nec: :madr:
94 Chevy Blazer - brother crashed.
94 2dr accord - h22 swap, rear ended.
03 1.8 gti - waiting for her bag of chips.
:crazyr: :slap: :hsughr: :nec: :madr:
