Fifty
years ago
1957
On the local papers:
"El Diario de Ávila"
Football
bets: 1630943,30 pesetas to be divided between 6 pool cards.
- Franco’s message to national press
ABC: "Unión, the key for the state success"
YA : "An optimistic future"
Arriba: "A coordinated action will be our greatest asset for Europe" - The town hall tries to solve the water problems.
- Madrid has 500,000 industrial building sites.
- Football bets: 1630943,30 pesetas to be divided between 6 pool cards.
- Petrol rationing
- The cloister, the cell and the garden plot. Following Jerusalem, the monastery “de la Encarnación” is the holiest in the word owing to the presence of Jesus Christ.
- The commercial agreement with Iceland continues. Iceland offers: salted cod, white oil and fishing products. Spain offers textiles, game, fishing nets, animal skins, dried fruits and wine.
- It is not possible the co-existence of Christianity and communism.
- Demand for ship building in the Spanish shipyards.
- Rural electricity inversions in the province, the number of villages included in the plan are 24.
- The English ambassador David Kelly emphasizes Spanish progress. He has highlighted the new hydroelectric stations, the shipyards and refineries; and, finally the irrigation systems in Andalucía, Aragón and Extremadura.
- Thousands of Valencian families ruined y the floods. 200 people are still stranded next to the beach, and some 600 in the mountains
In memoriam of the
10th anniversary of her husband’s death Mrs…..has donated
250,000 to charity
“Mus”
championship
National press
The SEAT 600 (Seiscientos, also nicknamed
pelotilla, seílla or seíta) was a Spanish car made by SEAT
from 1957 to 1973. It was not the first car of the Spanish company Seat.
The Seat 600 helped to start the economic recovery (called the Spanish
Miracle) after the hard years following the Spanish Civil War. When the
Seat 600 appeared, cars were no longer a luxury only for rich people,
now the middle class families could have a car. In the 60s it became a
symbol of Spain's industrial development: everybody wanted to have one,
even though its price was equivalent to some 24,000 € today.
In the comic world, alongside the classics such as, el Guerrero del Antifaz and Hazañas Bélicas Mortadelo and Filemón, created by Francisco Ibáñez, were published for the first time.
An armed revolt in
Ifni forced the Spanish troops to intervene.
The ECC treaty was signed.
The government reminded the legal dispositions regarding clothing: “for women it is prohibited to wear two piece swim- suits, breasts and backs should be covered, and skirts should be worn. As for men swimming trunks should cover the thigh."
On the 16th of January, the Cavern Club was opened, there a young musical group including John Lennon and Paul McCartney, known as the quarry men was formed. Later with the addition of George Harrison this group became the Beatles, and performed for the first time in 1958.
