Somebody you love was born in 1966. Give them the year back.
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In 1966 Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and Medicare paid its first bills that July. A first-class stamp cost five cents. Gasoline was thirty-two cents a gallon and a loaf of bread twenty-two. The typical American family lived on about $7,400 a year, and a brand-new house cost around $21,400. Batman and Star Trek both went on the air. The most popular names in the nursery were Michael and Lisa.
This is not a dry list of dates. It is 101 short chapters about the world a 1966 baby was born into, and then about their own life: the Big Wheel and the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle, Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday morning, the purple Ditto sheet and the metal lunchbox, Shrinky Dinks in the oven, the Bicentennial at nine or ten, Star Wars at ten or eleven, Pac-Man and the Atari in the den, the Walkman, the first night of MTV, and the class of 1984.
Inside: 101 fact cards, every one a real dated fact checked against two independent sources. 8 word search puzzles with full solution grids at the back. 40 trivia quiz questions across two quizzes, with all the answers. 8 original pencil illustrations opening the eight sections. Large print throughout, set in 12.5 point type.
Fill-in keepsake pages: where I was born, the house I grew up in, my first job, the best year of my life so far. Every chapter ends with a tick box, a quiz question or a line to write on. It is a book that gets answered, not just read, which is exactly why it gets kept.
Turning 60 is worth marking properly. Give them the year they were born, and room to write down their own story before it is lost.
