50 years of Living Western Brought to you by Cavender’s: 1968
Gallon of gas costs you 34 cents and a movie ticket $1.50- Buck-fifty got you in to see film The Green Berets (not a Western…but directed by and starring John Wayne, a western hero
- Johnny Cash records one his most famous recordings of his career – “Folsom Prison Blues”
- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
- The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents
- CMA Awards aired on TV for first time; Roy Rogers & Dale Evans host
St. Louis Arch; Credit – Wiki Commons