CSM Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Time Machine: 1958
- Pizza Hut opens in Kansas City, MO.
- Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army. (Newsreel of Elvis joining the Army on Google Video Web site )
- The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics is renamed NASA and the US launches its first satellite.
- The Air Force Academy opens.
- We watched Wagon Train, the Rifleman, and Maverick on TV.
- Tuition to Harvard cost $1,000/year.
- A movie ticket cost $1 to see "Gigi," "Vertigo," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "A Night to Remember" and "The Fly."
- Gasoline was 24 cents/gallon.
- Coffee was 93 cents/pound.
- We listened to "The Witch Doctor," "The Purple People Eater," "All I have to Do is Dream," and "At the Hop."
- First-class stamp:
3 cents
- Gasoline:
25 cents per gallon
- Average cost of
new home:
$12,750
- Average
monthly rent:
$92
- Average wages: $4,600 per year
- A semester of
classes at the college:
$75
- Unemployment:
5.2 million
- Inventions that debuted in 1958:
Microchip,
Computer modem,
Remote control
