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The Year You Arrived: 1957
A 70th Birthday Book of Real Prices, Headlines and Everyday Life
by Nancy Whitaker
You do not remember 1957. You were a baby. That is why this book exists.
The first part tells you about the world you arrived into. The second is about the years you do remember, and it stops explaining and starts asking. The third sets the year you were born beside the year you turn seventy, with the arithmetic done properly.
Every price in the book was read from the original 1959 Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletin, not copied from a website. Three figures in common circulation turned out to be wrong when checked, and the book says which three.
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What is inside The Year You Arrived: 1957
- What a quart of milk cost at the store and what the milkman charged to bring it to the door.
- Why a dozen eggs cost 47.9 cents in June and 69.5 cents in October.
- A month-by-month almanac: turn to your birth month for that week's news and prices.
- Blank pages for the memories the archives do not hold.
- Large print throughout.
Frequently asked questions
Is it a good 70th birthday gift?
That is what it was written for: people born in 1957 turn 70 in 2027. The paperback is large print and has blank pages for family memories.