1935
This landmark law was signed by Franklin D Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, creating a system to provide financial support to the elderly and unemployed.
What is the Social Security Act?
This Mississippi-born legend shook up the world with his singing and dancing.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Liz and Glenn met as first year teachers at Chippewa Junior High School over a conversation about this classroom item.
What is the American flag?
Elizabeth and Glenn were drawn to teach in Michigan where, due to the booming postwar economy largely driven by the automotive industry, the average teacher salary in 1957 was this.
What is $4400/year?
This 1951 novel features teenager Holden Caulfield as he navigates life in New York City.
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Poor farming practices and severe drought ravaged the Great Plains, leading to this massive displacement and economic hardship.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Born Tenzin Gyatso, this spiritual leader fled Tibet in 1959 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Who is the Dalai Lama?
The young couple and their friends took up this pastime and continued monthly for decades.
What is bridge?
The couple shared a car and paid this average amount for a gallon of gas.
What is 24 cents?
In 1952 John Steinbeck retells the story of Cain and Abel through two generations of a California family.
What is East of Eden?
Rolled out by Parker Brothers, this board game continues to be a classic.
What is Monopoly?
This British dame enchanted us all as she sang through the streets of London, the Alps, and Camelot.
Who is Julie Andrews?
Known as the 'Honeymoon Capital of the World' in the 1950s, the newlyweds traveled to this serene mountain setting after their wedding.
What is The Pocono Mountains?
Last years' spike in egg prices to $8 per dozen was all the harder to pay compared to this price.
What is 55 cents per dozen?
This 1952 novella written by Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
What is Old Man and the Sea?
A walk-off single in the bottom of the 9th of game six clinched the World Series for this team.
Who are the Detroit Tigers?
Born in Detroit, this American singer, songwriter, and actor became the mayor of Palm Springs and then a U.S. Congressman.
Who is Sonny Bono?
This made-up holiday was celebrated by the Peters and four other families for many, many years.
What is Thanksmas?
Long distance phone calls were quite expensive back then, but a first class postage stamp would get a letter in the mail for this.
What is 3 cents?
This 1954 novel by William Golding tells the story of boys stranded on an island descending into savagery.
What is Lord of the Flies?
The Gottfried Krueger Company of Richmond, VA introduced this product that transformed beverage packaging and distribution.
What is canned beer?
Born Allan Konigsberg, his career spanning 80 years includes acting and filmmaking, and holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay.
Who is Wood Allen?
This esteemed pastor officiated the wedding of Elizabeth and Glenn.
The Rev. Ernest J Peters, the groom's father.
After saving for a few years Elizabeth and Glenn purchased a new 1093 sq ft, 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath, brick home on Common Rd for this amount.
What is $13,500?
Grace Metalious told of the secrets of a not-so-gracious small town in this scandalous novel published in 1954.
What is Peyton Place?