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How Much things cost in 1955
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 0.28%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 3.5%
Average Cost of new house $10.950.00
Average Monthly Rent $87.00
Average Yearly Wages $4.130.00
Minimum Hourly Rate $1.00
Average Cost of a new car $1,900.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 23 cents
Ladies Swim Suits $12.95
Black and White TV $99.95
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Cost Of Living 1955
The 1955 Safari was built using components from both the Pontiac Chieftain and the Chevrolet Nomad allowing Chevy and Pontiac to share the costs for tooling. The chassis was available in either a four-door or more sporty two-door model and featured a "B" pillar that was raked forward unlike other two-door GM wagons of the time, along with sliding rear-seat windows.
The Safari came with a 287-cu.in. engine (the Strato-Streak), 173 HP, initially available only with a single two-barrel carburetor and single exhaust. If one preferred, they could order it with Hydra-Matic drive which had hydraulic lifters, and 180 horsepower.
In 1955 there were only 3,760 Safari's produced, making it the lowest production Pontiac of 1955.The Safari wagon was discontinued in 1989.
In 1955 there were only 3,760 Safari's produced, making it the lowest production Pontiac of 1955.The Safari wagon was discontinued in 1989.
Pontiac Safari
Introduced in 1955:
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Sincerely
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Sincerely
Ain't That A Shame
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1955 Year-End Chart
“Is This Santa Clause?”
Every year on Christmas Eve, since I was a child, I look forward to knowing just where Santa was on Christmas Eve and check the NORAD Santa Tracker.
The story has it that this all began in 1955 due to a phone number misprint in a Sears ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper; when a call arrived at the desk of one Colonel Harry Shoup at the Continental Air Defense Command now known as NORAD.
As Col. Shoup’s adult children relayed the story told to them by their father, early in December of 1955, his desk phone rang and “... then there was a small voice that just asked, 'Is this Santa Claus?' "
As one might imagine, he thought it was a joke—until the child started crying. "So he talked to him, ho-ho-ho'd and asked if he had been a good boy and, 'May I talk to your mother?' And the mother got on and said, 'You haven't seen the paper yet?
There's a phone number to call Santa. It's in the Sears ad. they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus."
There's a phone number to call Santa. It's in the Sears ad. they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus."
On Christmas Eve of 1955, the Colonel called the local radio station and said “…’This is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks like a sleigh.’ Well, the radio stations would call him every hour and say, ‘Where’s Santa now?’”
And the tradition continues today. Normally, on December 24th, a conference room at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs is turned into Santa's office for 150-160 volunteers taking 2-hour shifts, responding to more than 130,000 e-mails and telephone calls from more than two hundred countries and territories. This year, the number of volunteers is being cut due to safety restrictions forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. NORAD expects will be fewer than 10 people per shift.
Kids can call 1-877 HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) to talk to NORAD staff about Santa's exact location.
Courtesy of NORAD
