Random 50th Birthday Thoughts

Forgive me for revisiting this subject, but a person doesn't turn 50 every day. I was curious what happened the year I was born and discovered that in 1959:

Dwight Eisenhower was president

Alaska and Hawaii became states

Sleeping Beauty and Ben Hur were released.

Barbie was invented

Craylola sells a 64 crayon box

Guggenheim museum is built in New York City

St.Lawrence Seaway officially opens to shipping.

Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba

Women in Nepal vote for the first time

The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence

What things cost in 1959:

Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.01%

Average Cost of new house $12,400.00

Average Yearly Wages $5,010.00

Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents

Average Cost of a new car $2,200.00

Movie Ticket $1.00

Loaf of Bread 20 cents

I liked these musings of Paul Daughertry of the Cincinatti Enquirer

People called and asked, “Do you feel 50?”

No idea. How’s 50 supposed to feel?

If you’ve played pro football, 50 probably feels sore and looks like Advil. Age is the one arena where the rest of us have the edge on athletes. At age 52, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea. Mike Ditka had plastic hips.

At 50, Ford had invented the assembly line, Roosevelt was elected president, and John Updike got the Pulitzer Prize.

On the other hand, at 50 Pavlov was just a guy with too many dogs in his backyard, Ronald Reagan was an out-of-work actor, and Samuel Morse had virtually given up on the invention he called the telegraph.

Our friend, John Peckham gave me the best birthday insight. - "If we're going to live forever, 50 is just a drop in the bucket."