Cost of LIving expenses in 1948 when I was born

New House $7,700.00
Average income $2,936.00 per year
New Car     $1,230.00
Average rent $70.00 per month
Tuition Harvard University $525.00 per year
Gasoline. 16 cents per gallon
First class postage stamp 3 cents each

Granulated sugar 85 cents for 10 pounds
Vitamin D Milk   87 cents per gallon
Ground coffee     60 cents per pound

popular music

Buttons and Bows- Dinah Shore
I'm looking over a four leaf clover by Art Mooney
Love Somebody- By Doris Day and Buddy Clark
Manana (is soon enough for me) by Peggy Lee
Nature Boy -by Nat King Cole
Now is the Hour-Bing Crosby
A Tree in the Meadow- by Margaret Whiting
The Woody Woodpecker song- by Ray Kyser
You Call everybody Darling- by Al Trace
You Can't be True, Dear- by Ken Griffen

Movies

Hamlet (academy award winner
The Red Shoes
Fort Apache
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rope

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1948 Remember When---A Nostalgic look back in time