A look back...

While I was doing some looking around today for the price of a gallon of milk in 1973 (since that is what our CURRENT milk price at the farm gate is... the same then and now) I found some interesting things.

For this little web trip (not a field trip really) I'll use my birthday :) Since it's all about me anyway. Right? RIGHT? I'm glad we are all agreed... on with the trip!

I found this. Here is what I found out about the day I was born.

I am 12,087 days old. I am 209,088 hours old as of today's date.

I was born 0.1 day after a full moon... explains alot!

Robert Munsch was an author born on my birthday in 1945. He wrote Love You Forever ( a children s book)

Gas was $0.60 a gal. A loaf of bread was $0.30. Milk was $1.42 a gallon. Avg Income was $16,870.00. Min. Wage was $2.30. Price of a car was $5,418.00. A house cost $48,000.00. A stamp was $0.13.

Popular song was (one of many) Play that Funky Music by WildCherries and M*A*S*H was a popular TV show.

"Rocky" was the biggest money maker of 1976 at $117,235,147.00.

John Wayne died on my birthday in 1979.

My name means "Princess"

And this is what I got when I "googled" my first name. Who knew!

OK Two other interesting sites and their stats:

1973

Economy
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew

Population: 211,908,788
Life expectancy: 71.4 years

Dow-Jones
High: 1051
Low: 788

Federal spending: $245.71 billion
Federal debt: $466.3 billion
Inflation: 7.6%
Consumer Price Index: 44.4
Unemployment: 5.6%

Prices
Cost of a new home: $35,500.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $10,512.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.08
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.39
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.78
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.31

1999 (the closest I could get on this site to 2009 prices...)

Economy
President: Bill Clinton
Vice President: Al Gore

Dow-Jones
High: 11,750
Low: 9,181

Federal spending: $1716.95 billion
Federal debt: $5978.5 billion
Unemployment: 4.5%
Inflation: 2.1%

Prices
Cost of a new home: $195,800.00
Cost of a new car: $
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.33 (as of 1/10/99)
Median Household Income: $39,973.00
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $1.17
Cost of a dozen eggs: $1.08
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $3.32

If anyone knows where I can find this info let me know...