Saturday, September 5, 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Time Capsule Fun

  From Randy over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night 
time for more Genealogy Fun!!!


Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:


(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 you want to feature.

(4)  Share the date, why you picked it, and the results of time capsule fun in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  

Here's mine:

Since today is my mother's birthday, I chose this date to look into.  She was born Saturday, September 5, 1942.

This is what I found:

Top News Headlines This Week:

Sept 5    Battle at Alam Halfa ends
Sept 5    British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
Sept 6    Czech marathon runner Oskar H'ks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Sept 7    German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle

Top Songs for 1942:

Jersey Bounce by Benny Goodman    Moonlight Cocktail by Glenn Miller    
Tangerine by Jimmy Dorsey    Blues In the Night by Woody Herman    
Kalamazoo by Glenn Miller    White Christmas by Bing Crosby    
He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings by Kay Kyser    Jingle, Jangle, Jingle by Kay Kyser    
Sleepy Lagoon by Harry James    Somebody Else Is Taking My Place by Benny Goodman    

1942 Prices:

Bread:      $0.09/loaf
Milk:        $0.60/gal
Eggs:        $0.61/dozen
Car:         $1,100
Gas:         $0.20/gal
House:    $7,573
Stamp:    $0.03/each
Average Income:    $2,348/year
Minimum Wage:    $0.30/hour

The President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).

The Vice-President was Henry A. Wallace.

Academy Award Winners:

Best Picture:Mrs. Miniver
 Directed By William Wyler
Best Actor:James Cagney
 in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Best Actress:Greer Garson
 in Mrs. Miniver

People born on September 5:

1929 -- Bob Newhart, Comedian and Actor (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1937 -- William Devane, Actor (Family Plot, Missiles of October)
1940 -- Raquel Welch, Actress (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)

Top Books in 1942:

The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West    
West with the Night by Beryl Markham    

Happy Birthday, Mom!

1 comment:

  1. White Christmas and Yankee Doodle Dandy were definitely the best news items on your list for 1942.

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