What Was 1959 Like in the US?

If you were born in 1959, you entered a country at the peak of its chrome-plated, fin-tailed, TV-watching postwar confidence, though the cracks in the facade were just beginning to show.

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Life in the US in 1959

President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gas (per gallon)

$0.31

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Average House

$11,500

Weekly Wage

$83

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