The Party Continues....
Click and listen to music from 1969 while you peruse the pictures
Do you remember how much things cost in 1969?
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.46 %
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.6%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 800
Average Cost of new house $15,550.00
Average Income per year $8,550.00
Average Monthly Rent $135.00
Average Cost New Car $3,270.00
Toyota Corona $1,950.00
Gas per Gallon 35 cents
Alarm Clock from Westclox $9.98
Susan Gatti (and others) did a wonderful job setting up the arrangements
The Famous Jim Fiorito
Jim is now a financial analyst
Stories are told and retold!
Inaudible Announcements
Do you remember 1969? - Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean of Apollo 12 land on the Moon to become the second set of American astronauts to walk on the moons surface.
Watching or listening?
Do you remember? - Chappaquiddick Affair Senator Edward Kennedy driving a car plunges into a pond and a body of a woman passenger is found in the car
"Remember when? No! Don't even remember where!"
Meet the Garretts
It's been a few years
Beware, the DJ Is Warming Up
Do you remember?
- First Concorde test flight is conducted In France
- First transplant of human eye
- Seiko sells the first Quartz Watch
- The Harrier Jump Jet enters service with the RAF
- The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) is founded
- The first automatic teller machine ATM or Cash Machine is installed in the United States
- Creation of ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet
- The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carried 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
- UNIX is developed by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs
- The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am the epitome of the American muscle car is introduced.
- The Microprocessor ( a miniature set of integrated circuits ) is invented opening the way for the computer revolution that followed
Visiting continues
Meanwhile In The Outside Lounge...
Do you remember these movies?
- The Love Bug
- Funny Girl
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- True Grit
- Midnight Cowboy
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Easy Rider
- Where Eagles Dare
Swapping memories
Remembering those things that never happened
Sue and Fred...Old friends
Watching all the action!
Time To Dance... And I Will Not Drop Her This Time
Laurie and Paul trip the light fantastic
"It seems like yesterday"
Someone is moving
Penny and Patricia visit Laurie
Forty years ago... Wow!
Loyita shares some Memeories
We will get together again soon!
The party is beginning to thin out!
Get better soon!
Good night and no! You can't take him home!
The designated driver has arrived and we are off in a
cloud of dust and
a "Hi Yo Silver"