Calling all
Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some
more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is our assignment (from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing)
if we choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Go to the dMarie Time Capsule Website - http://dmarie.com/timecap/
2) Select a date in your family history that you want to know about. You might pick a birth date or wedding date of your parents or grandparents.
3) Enter the date into the search form, and select the news, songs, toys, books and other things that you want to feature.
4) Share the date, why you picked it, and the results of your Time Capsule study on your own blog, in a comment to this post, or in a comment or post on Facebook.
Here's mine:
1) Go to the dMarie Time Capsule Website - http://dmarie.com/timecap/
2) Select a date in your family history that you want to know about. You might pick a birth date or wedding date of your parents or grandparents.
3) Enter the date into the search form, and select the news, songs, toys, books and other things that you want to feature.
4) Share the date, why you picked it, and the results of your Time Capsule study on your own blog, in a comment to this post, or in a comment or post on Facebook.
Here's mine:
I picked my dad’s birthday of 23 April 1930. The results
are here.
Top News:
On April 23, H. Van Gent discovered asteroids #1225
Ariane & #1267 Geertruida. He discovered more the next day, too. On April
28, the first organized night baseball game occurred in Independence, Kansas. The
next day, 123 runs were scored in seven major league games!
Top Songs of 1930:
Mysterious Mose by Walter Doyle Lucky Seven by Howard Dietz
I Got Rhythm by Ira Gershwin
Little White Lies by W. Donaldson
Happy Feet by Jack Yellen
The White Dove by Clifford Grey
Get Happy by Harold Arlen
Ten Cents a Dance by Lorenz Hart
1930 Prices:
Bread was 8 cents a loaf, milk was 56 cents a gallon, and
eggs were 49 cents a dozen. You could buy a car for $525 and a house for $7146.
Stamps were 2 cents and the average income was $1612 per year.
The prices seem cheap,
but it was the middle of the Depression and my father’s parents could not afford
to buy a house. I don’t know if they even had a car, but if they did, it likely
was very old.
Other Facts
Herbert Hoover was President and Charles Curtis was the
Vice President.
Famous people born on April 23 were Shirley Temple (1928),
Lee Majors (1940), Sandra Dee (1942), and Valerie Bertinelli (1960). My dad
always mentioned that he had the same birthday as Shirley Temple and my aunt actually
knew Shirley Temple Black.
A Top book was The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell
Hammett. Best Picture was "All Quiet on the Western Front. And the hot toy was a
Mickey Mouse doll.
Copyright © 2020 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.
This was a fun challenge. That website seems to love to include the asteroid discoveries. I had some of those listed, too, but chose to ignore them.
ReplyDeleteThat is really cool about the asteroids!
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