Jane Ann McLachlan had this great idea for a blog challenge for the month of October to
do one day for each of the first 25 years of your life. This is the 6th
installment.
In 1969 the Dow closes at 800, way down.
Inflation was at 5.46%
Average cost of a new house: $15,550
Average income: $8550
Gasoline: $0.35 a gallon
Movie ticket: $1.50
Federal Debt $365.8 Billion, it actually went
down.
Vietnam is still going and the funny thing is we
instituted a draft this year at the same time start drawing down troops. Although, I‘m sure it’s not funny to the
thousands of young men that were now about to be involuntarily selected to go
fight a war they cared nothing about.
