Interesting Facts 72

  

    

      

    

  

      

Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.

      

The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.

      

The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. in 1953. That early ‘Vette sold for $3,250.

      

The first credit card, issued in 1950, was Diner’s Club. Frank X. McNamara started the company with 200 card holders.

      

The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.

      

Cocaine was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.

      

The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.

      

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