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TUSCALOOSA HIGH - YEAR TO YEAR HISTORY
"TUSCALOOSA HIGH SCHOOL" -(Called City High when built in 1909
This picture taken from a post card dated June 24, 1912
September 1955 to May 1959
Day to Day Calender - School Year '55-56
DIGEST OF NATIONAL NEWS -1955
Rock music fans get some of their first anthems. Popular songs include Bill Haley `s ``Rock Around the Clock'' and Chuck Berry's ``Maybelline.''
Ray Kroc buys out a hamburger franchise from the McDonald brothers and launches an empire of golden arches. Harland Sanders also begins his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise.
President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack.
George Meany becomes president of the newly merged labor organization, the AFL-CIO.
The polio vaccine, developed by microbiologist Jonas Salk, is declared safe for use. Just three years prior, polio had stricken over 50,000 Americans.
Sukarno hosts an international post-colonial conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
Sugar ``Ray'' Robinson wins the world boxing championship over Carl ``Bobo'' Olson.
Vladimir Nabokov publishes his controversial, erotic novel Lolita.
Argentina's President Juan Peron is overthrown by a military coup, and he flees to Spain.
Appearing in East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean is killed in an automobile accident. Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's movie, The Song of the Road, hits the big screen.
The U.S.S.R. organizes the Warsaw Pact to defend against the Western European Cold War alliance, NATO.
Disneyland, part of the empire that Walt Disney built, opens in California, the first theme park in America's history of leisure.
Sept.03, 1955 - "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" #1 hit of Mitch Miller released.
Sept.17, 1955 - "Ain't That A Shame" #1 hit of Pat Boone released.
Oct.08, 1955 - "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" #1 hit of Four Aces released.
Oct.29, 1955 - "Autumn Leaves" #1 hit of Roger Williams released.
Nov.26, 1955 - "Sixteen Tons" #1 hit of "Tennessee" Ernie Ford released.
Jan.07, 1956 - "Memories Are Made Of This" #1 hit of Dean Martin released.
Feb.18, 1956 - "Rock And Roll Waltz" #1 hit of Kay Starr was Released.
Feb.18, 1956 - "The Great Pretender" #1 hit of The Platter's.
Feb.25, 1956 - "Lisbon Antigua" #1 hit of Nelson Riddle was released.
Mar.17, 1956 - "The Poor People Of Paris" #1 hit of Les Baxter was released.
Apr.21, 1956 - "Heartbreak Hotel" #1 hit of Elvis Presley was released.
May.05, 1956 - "Hot Diddity(Hot Ziggity Boom)" #1 hit if Perry Como was released.
Jun.02, 1956 - Moonglow and Theme From "Picnic" #1 hit of Morris Stoloff was released.
Day to Day Calender - School Year '56-57
OLD BURCHFIELD HOTEL AND DOWN THE HILL TO THE TUSCALOOSA / NORTHPORT - BLACK WARRIOR BRIDGE (OLD U.S. ROUTE 82)
DIGEST OF NATIONAL NEWS -1956
In North Africa, Morocco wins its independence from French colonial rule.
In late 1955, Rosa Parks had refused to move to the back of the bus. This year in Montgomery, Alabama, a bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King brings the young preacher into the national eye.
Prince Rainier of Monaco marries the film actress Grace Kelly.
Fidel Castro lands on the Eastern coast of Cuba, launching a revolution against the Batista regime.
Elvis Presley tops the charts this year with ``Love Me Tender,'' ``Hound Dog,'' and ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl, which will become a classic of the beat generation in American poetry and literature.
When Egypt's president Gamal Abdal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, Israel, Britain, and France invade Egypt, while the U.S. opposes the invasion.
Pakistan adopts a new constitution and officially becomes an Islamic state.
The Soviets subdue an anti-Communist rebellion in Hungary.
This was Druid City Hospital when it was first built
Aug.18, 1956 - "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" #1 hit of Elvis Presley was released.
Nov.03, 1956 - "Love Me Tender" #1 hit of Elvis Presley was released.
Nov.03, 1956 - "The Green Door" #1 hit of Jim Lowe was released.
Dec.08, 1956 - "Singing The Blues" #1 hit of Guy Mitchell was released.
Jan.09, 1957 - "Too Much" #1 hit of Elvis Presley was released.
Jan.09, 1957 - "Don't Forbid Me" #1 hit of Pat Boone was released.
Jan.09, 1957 - "Young love" #1 hit of Sonny James was released.
Jan.16, 1957 - "Young Love" # hit of Tab Hunter was released.
Mar.30, 1957 - "Butterfly" #1 hit of Andy Williams was released.
Mar.30, 1957 - "Party Doll" #1 hit of Buddy Knox was released.
Apr.06, 1957 - "Round And Round" #1 hit of Perry Como was released.
Apr.13. 1957 - "All Shook Up" #1 hit of Elvis Presley was released.
Apr.13, 1957 - "Butterfly" #1 hit of Charlie Gracie was released.
Jun.03, 1957 - "Love Letters In The Sand" #1 hit of Pat Boone was released.
Day to Day Calender - School Year '57-58
DIGEST OF NATIONAL NEWS -1957
The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), an anti-nuclear protest organization, is created and demands nuclear disarmament.
Written six years prior, Jack Kerouac's On the Road is published, catapulting him into beat generation stardom.
Inaugurating a new era in exploration, the U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I and II, the first earth satellites. Space exploration becomes another arena of Cold War competition.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, the civil rights movement shifts into high gear when white crowds protest efforts to desegregate public schools. President Eisenhower sends in the National Guard.
The Gold Coast becomes the first of Britain's African colonies to gain independence, officially becoming Ghana, with Kwame Nkrumah as prime minister.
Dr. Seuss publishes the captivating The Cat in the Hat, a classic in children's literature.
In Britain, the Wolfender Report, which supports the legalization of homosexuality, is published.
Berry Gordy founds Motown, which will become a major force in rock music in the 1960s.
Posthumous poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Wallace Stevens are published. Boris Pasternak publishes his epic Dr. Zhivago, which will win him next year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
So-called ``killer bees,'' imported from Africa, spread north in the Americas from Brazil.
Aug.19, 1957 - "Tammy" #1 hit of Debbie Reynolds was released.
Sept.09,1957 - "Diana" #1 hit of Paul Anka was released.
Sept.23,1957 - "Honeycomb" #1 hit of Jimmie Rodgers was released.
Sept.23,1957 - "That'll Be The Day" #1 hit of the Crickets was released.
USS TUSCALOOSA - WWII
Day to Day Calender - School Year '58-59
DIGEST OF NATIONAL NEWS -1958
The play "A Raisin in the Sun", by 29-year-old Lorraine Hansberry, is at tale of the modern African-American family.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the U.S.S.R..
Alarmed by recent advances by the Soviet space program, the United States establishes NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to coordinate its own efforts to reach space. America's first satellite is released this year.
Prince Charles, son of Elizabeth II and future husband of Diana, becomes the Prince of Wales.
The first atomic submarine, the Nautilus, built in 1954, travels under the North Pole.
Robert Welch founds the right-wing John Birch Society to combat communism, which he believes has infiltrated the highest levels of government.
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe publishes his novel about colonialism, Things Fall Apart.
The National Defense Education Act places heavy emphasis on math, science, and language education.
Credit cards get a boost; charge card American Express debuts, and the forerunner of Visa, the BankAmericard, also appears.
Charles de Gaulle is elected the first president of France's newly created Fifth Republic.
John Kenneth Galbraith pens The Affluent Society to criticize private consumption in American society and advocate greater spending on public resources.
Broad Street *************** Greensboro Ave -Between 6th and 7th streets
Sept.1,1958 - Top News This Quarter - THE UNITED STATES WITHDRAWS THE LAST OF ITS TROOPS FROM LEBANON. A TRAIN ACCIDENT NEAR BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY KILLS 48 PEOPLE. THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE SEAWOLF SURFACES AFTER A 60 DAY UNDERWATER VOYAGE, SETTING A WORLD RECORD FOR UNDERSEA ENDURANCE.
1958 Prices
House: $30,000.00
Car: $2,200.00
Milk: $1.01
Bread: $.19
Gas: $.24
Stamp: $0.04
Avg Income: $4,650.00
US President - Dwight Eisenhower
US Vice President - Richard Nixon
Birthdays
Rocky Marciano - 1923
Conway Twitty - 1933
Lillie Tomlin - 1936
Feb.02, 1959 - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa on this date
"GORGAS HOME" on the campus at University of Alabama
(notice the funny looking car?)
DIGEST OF NATIONAL NEWS -1959
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City. Wright dies this year at age 89.
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba.
Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev visits the United States.
In January, Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state, followed by Hawaii, the 50th, in August.
In musical theater, the Sound of Music, based on the Von Trapp family, premieres with Mary Martin, while Ethel Merman appears on Broadway in Gypsy.
Jazz's ``Lady Day,'' Billie Holiday, dies. Rock musician Buddy Holly also dies in a plane crash.
The U.S.S.R. sets off an international, space-age buzz when it launches a rocket with two monkeys on board.
Louis Leakey finds the skull of ``nutcracker man'' in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, suggesting that human evolution began on the continent of Africa not Asia.
President Eisenhower invokes the Taft-Hartley Act to end a 116-day steel workers' strike.
The doll industry gets a new major player when Barbie debuts. Barbie is created by the Handlers, a husband and wife team who found Mattel, Inc.
The microchip, forerunner of the microprocessor, is invented by Jack Kilby and future Intel founder Robert Noyce.
An uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet is repressed, and the Dalai Lama flees to India.
Painter Jasper Johns completes Numbers in Color.
It's a little out of date (1919) but farm house's like it were around in 1959
This was passed on to me by Maggie
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