The year was 1957. Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. A loaf of bread cost a mere $0.19. Leave it to Beaver saw its television debut.
Yes, I Googled all of that.
One of the lesser known things to come out of 1957 was one of the greatest hoaxes of all time: the BBC's coverage of the Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino, Italy...