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MORGANHUNTER2
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It's that time of year (again) and now I'm older, my AARP card is up for renewal, I had to work today(Normally take the day off), mom is in Az(with dad).
Cheer me up- post me sumthin from 56
Proof and Mint would be nice to look at today.
I know the hep kitty has a sweet frankie or 2
thank you all who wish me a Happy Bday- I'll be in n out for the next 9 hours.
POST EM BABY!!!!!!
Cheer me up- post me sumthin from 56
Proof and Mint would be nice to look at today.
I know the hep kitty has a sweet frankie or 2
thank you all who wish me a Happy Bday- I'll be in n out for the next 9 hours.
POST EM BABY!!!!!!
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–John Adams, 1826
Not mine, but it's Purdy... Happy Birthday!!
Get up and dance everyone!
Ray
To help cheer you up,I'm a bit older.
Brian
How many Candles did you say you needed?
Take it easy on the cake, remember, it goes in like this, and comes out like this!
Hold still so I can take your picture:
This picture of you came out great:
Bottom line my friend:
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Good to see you hangin' young fella.
The entertainment can never be overdressed....except in burlesque
Gil - sweet lincy
Stef- nice Frankies
Thanks everyone I appreciate it.
I thought since everyone was was doing the coin thing,I would do this for you
when you was born.......................
what things cost in 1956
First-class stamp: $0.03
House: $22,000
Average income: $4,454
Ford car: $1748-$3151
Milk: $.97
Gas: $.23
Bread $.18
Chuck Pot Roast: $ .33 lb.
Spareribs: $.39 lb.
Cabbage: $.04 lb.
Eggs, doz.: $.45
Coffee: $.69 lb.
Carnation Instant Chocolate Drink, 10oz.: $.33
Rheingold Beer, 6, 12 .oz cans: $1.20
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Pepsodent inaugurates "You'll wonder where the yellow went" ad campaign. advertisement
The U.S. Department of Agriculture formulates the four basic food groups. (I'm sure there would have been five - but Chicken McNuggets hadn't been invented yet.)
Federal minimum wage rises to $1
At a Fourth of July family barbecue, Milton Levine dreams up the idea for the first Ant Farm, complete with live ants.
Yahtzee is born!
Nate Sherman of Chicago establishes Midas and introduces the muffler guarantee - Hugh Landrum signs agreement to open first Midas Muffler shop in Macon, Georgia.
The Andrea Doria sinks.
200,000 Soviet troops and tanks crush anti-Communist uprisings in Hungary.
Budweiser Brewery introduces Busch beer
As the World Turns and Edge of Night premiere.
On the Air! You'd find 2,790 AM radio, 540 FM radio and 442 TV Stations.
Los Alamos Laboratory discovers the neutrino, an atomic particle with no electric charge.
Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a highly publicized Monte Carlo wedding on April
At a reception in the Kremlin, Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev tells ambassadors from the West, "History is on our side. We will bury you!"
A busy year for Nikita - The Soviet Union sends troops and tanks to occupy Hungary to put down anti-Soviet protests. Why? Hungary is the best place from which to launch mid-range ballistic missiles and Soviets can't afford to let the natives think independence.
Choosy mothers can now choose - Jif Peanut Butter!
Dash laundry detergent - gets clothes cleaner than any other product especially made for automatic washers!
President Eisenhower (R) is re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D).
Britain abolishes death penality.
Certs, the first candy breath mint, is introduced.
Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere.
In Sports...
Admiral George Dufek, as part of Operation Deep Freeze, is the first American to land an airplane at South Pole.
Wizard of Oz first aired on TV.
Elvis Presley makes his television debut on CBS Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show. The Fifties Web Elvis Pages
The Dow Jones Industrial Average marks a new high - 500.24 points.
The after-tax income of the average American is $1700, up $63 from 1955. The average weekly take-home for a worker with three dependents is $74.04.
Albert Woolson, the last Union soldier of the Civil War dies at age 109. The last Confederate soldier, Walter Williams will die in 1959.
And while we're on passings...Samuel J. Seymour , the last eyewitness to the death of Abraham Lincoln dies.
Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
Finally, a law is passed allowing the FBI to enter a kidnapping case 24 hours after the abduction. Before, it was local matter.
A dollar buys only as much food in 1956 as 41¢ bought in 1939.
A big year as momentum builds in the quest for Civil Rights.
The first transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Scotland)
Americans exported 700 million cases of canned goods. And no doubt called it "cuisine."
The gross national product is $408 billion.
650,000 US steel workers go on strike.
The La Leche League is founded in Illinois to encourage mothers to breast-feed their infants.
Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad, Gaza, Sheham and the Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal in Egypt
Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent. sad story.
By now, more than 80 percent of U.S. households have refrigerators. By contrast, only 8 percent of British households do.
Clairol introduces the "Does She or Doesn't She" advertising campaign. "Only her hairdresser knows for sure."
Bob Cousy (basketball), Bobby Lane (football) and Duke Snider (baseball) get their own Wheaties boxes!
The first commercial videotape recorder is introduced. The device is intended for industrial applications, and it quickly revolutionizes the way television programming is produced. Engineers race to produce a practical VCR for consumers.
The book, Peyton Place is published.
American will import 107,675 passenger cars.
There are 39,628 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 152 fatalities.
Unemployment is 4.2%
U.S. GNP (Gross National Product) is $434.0 billion
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Happy birthday! It's my 25th anniverary today as well. An all-around great day!
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
You're just a young whippersnapper, MORGANHUNTER2.
Happy Birthday, anyway.
Ray
<< <i>Don't have anything to post - 1856 is modern crap
Happy birthday! It's my 25th anniverary today as well. An all-around great day! >>
Good things happen in September
Libra's are the best.
Hoard the keys.
- Bob -
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Central Valley Roosevelts
Don't have any coins for ya, but Happy Birthday!
Most Happy Birthday.....
Here is one of my favorites from '56.....
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I was also born in 1956, but in February, so I have a few months on you.
It was a very good year IMHO. Just think we were born and lived in a world where there was no satellites or spaceship in orbit; in a year where we shared space with poeple who fought in the Civil War and saw President Lincoln get shot; in a year where there was no color TV; in a year where there was no computers and internet. Cowboys and Indians, the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the 50's baby, IKE; and big old Frankie half dollars made of 90% silver.