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:

(1)  Go to the dMarie Time Capsule Website.

(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!