Ronald Armstrong Tribute

Since I am younger than Ron, I wasn't there. However, I got this information from dMarie Time Capsule online.

1934 (U.S.) Prices:
Bread - $0.08/ loaf
Milk - $0.45/gal.
Car - $575
Gas - $0.19 gal.
House - $5,972
Stamp - $0.03/ea.
Avg. Income - $1,506/yr.

Best Picture: It Happened One Night
Top Songs: Solitude by Duke Ellington, One Night of Love by Gus Kahn,
Fun to be Fooled by Ira Gershwin, Lost in a Fog by Dorothy Fields
Fair and Warmer by Al Dubin, You'rethe Top by Cole Porter
Anything Goes by Cole Porter, There Goes My Heart by Abner Silver

Hot New Toys in 1934:
Radio Flyer "Streak-O-Lite"
Parker Brothers' "Sorry!"

Top Books:
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller