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1955 

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
 Robert Louis Stevenson.

 

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July 4, 1955

Birthdays:

 

  • Sept. 30 James Dean killed when his Porsche careered off the road in Los Angeles 

     

     
  • St. Lawrence Seaway constructed linking Great Lakes to the Atlantic.
  • Disneyland, costing $17m, opens in California on July 17th. 
  • "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley And The Comets reaches number one in August.
  • September 30th James Dean dies in a car crash.
  • October 28th, Bill Gates was born in Seattle Washington.  Seattle was always a popular place to shop, which I would do later in life, driving down from Vancouver.

 

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  •  Albert Einstein dies

 

 

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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller (1891–1980), U.S. author. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch,"The Oranges of the Millennium" (1957).

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