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Circle T Burgers – Belen, New Mexico
The year was 1958. The average American wage-owner’s income was $4,650 per year. A Ford automobile cost between $1,967 and $3,929. Milk was $1.01 per gallon. Bread cost 19 cents a loaf and a can of Chef Boyardee spaghetti went for 19 cents a can. First class US postage was raised to 4 cents after having held at 3 cents for more than a quarter-century. A gallon of gasoline cost 24 cents. In 1958, the United States had two-thirds of the world’s 47-million television sets and many of them were tuned in to Gunsmoke, Father Knows Best, Dinah Shore and The Jack Benny Show. France gave the world the disposable Bic pen (which very few people under 20 have even…