TV games shows dominated the ratings. The $64,000 Dollar Question led the pack with audiences at the edge of their collective couch cushions.
Mr. Roberts remained a popular box office draw.
Competition for the Oscars will include Around the World In 80 Days. The Space Race is on display in this trailer.
Later in the month Nikita Khrushchev will denounce Joseph Stalin. The West isn’t aware of it but the Soviet yoke will be lifted off the Russian and other Iron Curtain countries a little bit with this speech. A year later the masterpiece Dr. Zhivago will be published, first in Italy and then world wide without its author, Boris Pasternak, being punished as so many had been before.
Baseball was in its Hot Stove season. The two reigning MVP’s were catchers Roy Campanella of the Dodgers and Yogi Berra. Two years later one of them would be playing in Los Angeles Chavez Ravine.
Narrowing the view, the Governor of Massachusetts was Christian Herter. Leverett Saltonstall and John F. Kennedy were serving in the US Senate. Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth continued to serve in the House of Representatives as he had since 1928.
You could follow the daily news in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, The Boston Record, The Boston American, and the Boston Traveler which was the oldest running paper in the city.
In Scituate, readers had those papers and the Quincy Patriot Ledger joining the local weeklies, the Scituate Herald and the Cohasset Cottager. Mrs. Edward K. Chase of First Parish Road was the correspondent covering Scituate for the Cohasset paper.
It was in the Cohasset Cottager in the summer of 1955 that there was a report that will come to be more meaningful as the Etrusco story unfolds.
The names James Howard, Wayne Kestilla, and Arthur Sylvester will be major players the night that Etrusco came ashore. 9 months earlier they were preparing for a real crisis. The second scenario described in this article is an amazing coincidence.
Bowling at the Satuit Bowlaway cost 25 cents. An afternoon show at the Scituate Playhouse cost 65 cents, jumping up to 85 cents in the evening. A friend of the blog was supported in his basic training for the US Navy. Wampatuck School was in its bidding stage, as was an addition to the Jenkins school. There was a full slate of candidates for a multitude of town offices. The Chief of Police, who was soon to be a very busy man, was in the hospital for some work.
And in a choice that would be met with significant support today, the State Department of Public Works took on the creation of an improved gateway to town with the help of the Scituate Chamber of Commerce, Lester Hobson, President.
The end of the month would see lots of advertising for the upcoming elections and this multicolumn pitch for a car most of us have never heard of before.
Paul Young Motors had moved out of Scituate Harbor and was selling the Dodge Coronet. This pitch brought to you by “Make Room for Daddy”, “Break the Bank” with Bert Parks and a returning guest here, Lawrence Welk.
March will be quickly upon those Scituate residents heading to First Parish Road for a test drive. The snow will fall and a big ship will come around. Check back here for the next steps.
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