JANUARY 5, 1930

SUNDAY
1930 Coca-Cola advertising artwork
$1,000 INVESTED IN COKE STOCK (KO) IN 1930
WOULD HAVE MADE YOU $43,923,516 IN THE 2025 DATASET
Min Wage Hourly$0.25
Median Home Price$5,500.00
Gas Price Avg$0.20
Bread Price Avg$0.08
Movie Ticket Avg$0.25
First Class Stamp$0.02
Milk Price Avg$0.50
Top Movies From 1930
Show screen release and event cards
1 Whoopee!
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Whoopee!
2 Check and Double Check
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Check and Double Check
3 All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
4 Hell's Angels
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Hell's Angels
5 The Big House
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The Big House
6 Common Clay
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Common Clay
7 Min and Bill
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Min and Bill
8 Song o' My Heart
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Song o' My Heart
9 Son of the Gods
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Son of the Gods
10 The Dawn Patrol
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The Dawn Patrol

January 5, 1930 Trivia

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January 5, 1930

January 5, 1930 does not read like one neat chapter. It has New Marin Water-Colors, Corporation Reports, Blaze in Capitol Remains Unsolved sharing the page, which gives the day a messy, useful pulse: News, Culture, all happening a...

Inventions & Breakthroughs of January 1930

Gadgets, lab surprises, odd bets, and future-shocks from this slice of the calendar.

1 Scotch Cellulose Tape
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Scotch Cellulose Tape
2 Birds Eye Retail Frozen Foods
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Birds Eye Retail Frozen Foods
3 Pluto Discovery
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Pluto Discovery
4 Motorola Car Radio
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Motorola Car Radio
5 Twinkie Snack Cake
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Twinkie Snack Cake
6 Neoprene Synthetic Rubber
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Neoprene Synthetic Rubber
7 Schick Electric Shaver Patent
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Schick Electric Shaver Patent
8 Differential Analyzer
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Differential Analyzer
9 Turbojet Engine Patent
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Turbojet Engine Patent
10 BBC Mechanical Television Broadcasts
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BBC Mechanical Television Broadcasts

The Sounds of

Popular recordings and roots/country selections associated with the year

Headlines From January 5, 1930

Full News Archive

  • Headline: New Marin Water-Colors. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
  • Headline: Corporation Reports. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
  • Headline: Blaze in Capitol Remains Unsolved. Impact: Culture snapshot: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument. Fact: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
  • Headline: Young 'Reds' Assail Mexico at Embassy. Impact: Culture snapshot: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument. Fact: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
  • Headline: People Enriched By Automobiles. Impact: Money snapshot: The money story is not abstract; it touches wages, banks, prices, relief, and the early-Depression question of who absorbs the shock. Fact: The early Depression made ordinary business news feel like a warning light on the dashboard.
  • Headline: 1929 Dividends Rise to $4,462,019,234. Impact: Infrastructure snapshot: The fight is over movement: who gets through, who pays, and whether the modern city can keep from tying itself in knots. Fact: Modern life was becoming a logistics puzzle: streets, tunnels, ships, trains, and money all competing at once.
  • Headline: Scots Here Aid Paisley. Impact: Money snapshot: The money story is not abstract; it touches wages, banks, prices, relief, and the early-Depression question of who absorbs the shock. Fact: The early Depression made ordinary business news feel like a warning light on the dashboard.
  • Headline: Art's 'Lost and Found'. Impact: Culture snapshot: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument. Fact: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
  • Headline: Bus Lines Allege Small Town Graft. Impact: Politics snapshot: Power was being negotiated in public, through officials, pressure groups, and policy fights. Fact: Power was being negotiated in public, through officials, pressure groups, and policy fights.

Wall Street Time Machine

The Right Call: A historical $1,000 investment comparison using the stored long-range dataset.
Rank #1
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
Price in 1930
$0.06
Stored value
$3,433,940

Johnson & Johnson - If you invested $1,000 in 1930, it would be worth $3,433,940 today (3433.9x return)

Rank #2
PG
Procter & Gamble
Price in 1930
$0.25
Stored value
$586,657

Procter & Gamble - If you invested $1,000 in 1930, it would be worth $586,657 today (586.7x return)

Rank #3
CVX
Chevron
Price in 1930
$0.31
Stored value
$474,913

Chevron - If you invested $1,000 in 1930, it would be worth $474,913 today (474.9x return)

🧸 Top 5 Toys
Tiddledy Winks
Tiddledy Winks
$10
Lincoln Logs
Lincoln Logs
$120
Mickey Mouse Doll
Mickey Mouse Doll
$250
Marbles
Marbles
$150
Tinkertoy
Tinkertoy
$50
⚾ Top 5 Trading Cards
Typhoo Tea 'British Land Birds'
Typhoo Tea 'British Land Birds'
$40-$250
Carreras Cigarettes 'History of Naval Dress'
Carreras Cigarettes 'History of Naval Dress'
$75-$400+
Wills's Cigarettes 'Cinema Stars'
Wills's Cigarettes 'Cinema Stars'
$50-$350+
Churchman's Cigarettes 'Boxing' Series
Churchman's Cigarettes 'Boxing' Series
$100-$800
Godfrey Phillips 'Film Stars'
Godfrey Phillips 'Film Stars'
$50-$500+