What year were you born?
Pick your decade, then your year. See the No. 1 song, the top movie, the top TV show, the Best Picture winner, the most popular baby names and what a stamp and an hour of work were worth.
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Where these numbers come from: song charts from Billboard, movies from Wikipedia’s year in film lists, stamp rates from US postage history, minimum wage from the US Department of Labor, gas from the US Energy Information Administration, bread and coffee from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, movie tickets from the National Association of Theatre Owners, candy bars from Hershey and news reports, and newspaper prices from The New York Times archive. Prices are yearly averages or the price on January 1. When a year has no record, we show the closest year we have and say so.
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