Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- The Time Capsule
Hey genea-fanatics, it's Saturday Night, time for more Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you deign to accept it (come on, it's fun!), is to:
1) Go to the dMarie Time Capsule Website - http://dmarie.com/timecap/
2) Select a date in your family history that you want to know about. You might pick a birth date or wedding date of your parents or grandparents.
3) Enter the date into the search form, and select the news, songs, toys, books and other things that you want to feature.
4) Share the date, why you picked it, and the results of your Time Capsule study on your own blog, in a comment to this post, or in a comment or post on Facebook.
Here's mine:
I choose the wedding date of Clinton Phillip Woerner and his wife Anna Elizabeth Kinnison. Whom are my grandparents on my father’s side. The wedding date for them is July 1, 1939
Saturday, July 01, 1939
Top News Headlines This Week:
Jul 3 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler Jul 3 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech Jul 4 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game Jul 4 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day Jul 6 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises Jul 7 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
Top Songs for 1939
And the Angels Sing by Benny Goodman
Scatter-Brain by Frankie Masters
Jeepers Creepers by Al Donohue
Beer Barrel Polka by Will Glahe
Over the Rainbow by Glenn Miller (also Judy Garland)
Deep Purple by Larry Clinton
Moon Love by Glenn Miller
South of the Border by Shep Fields
Stairway to the Stars by Glenn Miller
Wishing (Will Make It So) by Glenn Miller
1939 Prices
US President
Bread:
$0.08/loaf
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Milk:
$0.49/gal
US Vice President
Eggs:
$0.58/doz
John N. Garner
Car:
$750
Academy Award Winners
Gas:
$0.19/gal
Best Picture:
Gone With The Wind
Directed By Victor Fleming
Best Actor:
Robert Donat
in Goodbye Mr. Chips
Best Actress:
Vivien Leigh
in Gone With The Wind
House:
$6,416
Stamp:
$0.03/ea
Avg Income:
$1,837/yr
Min Wage:
$0.30/hr
DOW Avg:
150
People born on July 1
1934 - Jamie Farr Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet)
1942 - Karen Black Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Trilogy of Horror, Pyx)
Hot New Toys in 1939
View-Master
Top Books in 1939
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Well that was neat. I have to laugh at the View Master.
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