What do you know or remember
Find The History of Cost Of Living, Prices, Events, Popular Social Culture,
Inventions, Technology By Year, Decade or Type From The
20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's 70's, 80's, 90's and The New Millennium
History allows us to use just a few words to Instantly recognize a decade
by reading some of the things that occured during that decade check some of the examples below
1920's Flappers, Prohibition, and The Roaring 20's
1930's The Great Depression, Mobsters, Unemployment, Years of the 30's
1940's Pearl Harbor, Concentration Camps, Nuclear Bomb, Second World War of the 40's
1950's Big Cars, Baby Boomers, Cold War, Berlin Wall, of the 50's
1960's Swinging Sixties, Beatles, Beetle's, Pop Music, Youth Culture, Korea, Man on The Moon, Civil Rights Movement, of the 60's
1970's Consumer Driven Economy, Vietnam, Japanese Imports, Race Riots, Arab Israeli War, Watergate of the 70's
1980's Technology Revolution, Anti Nuclear Protests, Aids, Cold War, Lebanon, Apartheid, Terrorism, of the 80's
1990's Yuppie Era, Computers, Internet, Bosnia, Dot Com Boom and Bust, Desert Storm, Soviet Union Breakup of the 90's
Although some of those words or phrases well apply to more than one decade mostly we associate those words or phrases with a specific decade.
How much did things cost in each decade
Following research into Prices for various goods and commodities ( we used prices advertised in newspapers for our research ) we thought we would share some of those we thought were interesting or showed how improvements in technology can dramatically change prices