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Over The Back Fence

This issue has special significance for me ... it’s being published on my birthday! That’s right ... it’s another revolution around the sun for me, folks! So I thought I’d take you on a journey back in the time machine, Mr. Peabody, to 1956 and some of the highlights, in addition to my birth.

• Elvis Presley had his first hit, “Heartbreak Hotel”

• The first computer with a hard drive was introduced by IBM –it had 3.75MB of storage and weighed in at 2,000 pounds

• Tefal started producing non-stick frying pans

• I Love Lucy was the #1 TV show

• Bette Nesmith Graham invented “Mistake Out”, later renamed Liquid Paper

• Milton Bradley brought us Yahtzee

• My favourite cereal of all time, Cocoa Puffs, was introduced

Cover: - Bobcaygeon Flower Company editor@thepromoter.ca

As for grocery prices, get ready for this: a pound of hamburger was 38 cents, chicken was 52 cents a pound, a quart of fresh milk was 21 cents, a dozen eggs was 63 cents and a loaf of bread was 18 cents.

Going to fill up the car seemed a lot cheaper too. On average in 1956, the price of a gallon of gas was 30 cents, but that’s the equivalent of just over $3 in today’s dollars. It would cost you between $1,500 and $3,000 to pick up a new Ford car.

At the Summer Olympics, Canada won a total of six medals from 92 competitors. Perspective here ... at the 2022 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Team Canada had 215 athletes who brought home 26 medials.

All this nostalgia is fun, but the reality of 2023 is pretty great, too. Vaccines, healthcare, computers, mobile phones, electric cars and so much more to look forward to in the coming years.

As John Lennon so eloquently put it, “Count your life by friends, not years.” I am so old! Thanks, friends! Keep smiling!