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1964

COST OF LIVING IN 1964

1. Average cost of a new house:    $13,050.00

2. Average income:                         $  6,000.00

3. Average cost of a new car:         $  3,500.00

4. Gas per Gallon:                          $             .30

5. Loaf of bread:                             $             .21

6. 1st Class stamp:                        $             .05

7. Average monthly rent:               $       115.00

8. Ticket to the movies:                 $           1.25

9. Minimum wage:                          $           1.15 per hour

MUSIC
TOP ALBUMS 

1. Hello Dolly                                           Original Cast

2. Honey in the Horn                               Al Hirt

3. Meet the Beatles                                  The Beatles

4. Songs of the West Side Story            Movie Soundtrack

5. The Second Barbra Streisand Albm  Barbra Streisand 

GRAMMY AWARDS 

1. Album of the Year                         Getz/Gilberto  Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

2. Best New Artist                            The Beatles

3. Best Pop Duo or Group               "A Hard Day's Night"-The Beatles

4. Best Pop Female Vocal                "People"-Barbra Streisand

5. Best Pop Male Vocal                    "Hello Dolly"- Louis Armstrong

6. Best Rock and Roll Recording   "Downtown"-Petula Clark

7. Record of the Year                       "The Girl from Ipanema"-Stan Getz & A. Gilberto.

8. Song of the Year                          "Hello Dolly"- Louis Armstrong

9. Best Country & Western song   "Dang Me"-Roger Miller 

TOP GROSSING MOVIES 

1. Mary Poppins                            Grossed       $102,300,000.00

2. Goldfinger                                 Grossed       $  51,100,000.00

3. Viva Las Vegas                          Grossed       $    4,675,000.00

4. A Fist Full of Dollars                 Grossed       $    3,500,000.00

5. Roustabout                                Grossed       $    3,000,000.00 

ACADEMY AWARDS 

1. Best Actor                                   Rex Harrison-My Fair Lady

2. Best Actress                               Julie Andrews-Mary Poppins

3. Best Director                              George Cukor- My Fair Lady

4. Best Picture                               Jack L. Warner- My Fair Lady

5. Best Supporting Actor               Peter Ustinov - Topkapi

6. Best Supporting Actress           Lila Kedrova Alexis Zorbas 

 TOP 25 TELEVISION SHOWS OF 1964 

1. Bonanza

2. Bewitched (debuted in 1964)

3. Gomer Pyle USMC

4. Andy Griffith Show

5. The Fugitive

6. Red Skelton

7. Dick Van Dyke Show

8. I Love Lucy

9. Peyton Place II

10. Combat

11. Walt Disney

12. Beverly Hillbillies

13. My Three Sons

14. Branded (Western starring Chuck Conners)

15. (tie) Petticoat Junction and Ed Sullivan (17th season for him)

16. Lassie

17. The Munsters (Debuted in 1964)

18. Gilligan's Island (Debuted in 1964)

19. Payton Place 1

20. The Jackie Gleason Show

21. The Virginian

22. The Addam's Family (Debuted in 1964)

23. My Favorite Martian (Bill Bixby and Ray Walston) 

OTHER DEBUTS   

1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

2. Man From U.N.C.L.E.  (starring Robert Vaughn)

3. That was the week that Was (political comedy starring David Frost, Alan Alda, Henry Morgan and Buck Henry)

4. Shindig- 1/2-hour dance/music show

5. Daniel Boone (what was Ed Ames's name?????)

6. By 4/30/1964 all new TV's had to have UFH capabilities.

 NEWS 

1. Martin Luther King Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize

2. World's Fair opens in New York.

3. The Alaskan Earthquake hit (2nd largest recorded 9.2.....Sunami killed 11 in Crescent City California the next day....waves as far as LA)

4. China explodes the first Atomic Bomb

5. Canada gets a new Flag....White with a Maple leaf in red

6. GI Joe is introduced.

7. Tonka Dump truck introduced (most popular truck & is guaranteed for life)

8. Olympics held in Toyko

9. Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in heavyweight boxing title fight.
   

10. Cole Porter, Ian Fleming, Herbert Hoover die. 

 POTPOURRI 

1. The first Mustangs hit the road

2. The Kennedy half-dollar was introduced

3. Pop Tarts were introduced

4. Zip codes were introduced

5. Lucky Charms were introduced

6. BASIC (computer language) was introduced 

7. IBM announces the System/360

8. Sony introduces the first VCR Home Recorder

9. The first DRIVER-LESS train runs in the London Underground

10. The first computer mouse is invented by Douglas Englebart.

11. Bubble Wrap is invented by Marc A. Chanvannes

12. Hermit's Hermits hit # 13 - "I'm into something good" they take off in 1965.

13. Pink Panther hits the big Screen.

14. New term "Battered Child Syndrome"

15. Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton 10 days after her divorce to Eddie Fisher is final.