It took 74 years for a British man -- Andy Murray -- to make it back to the Wimbledon final following Bunny Austin’s appearance in 1938.

While neither Austin nor Murray won -- Murray fell to 17-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer on Sunday, Austin to Don Budge, who won the 1938 single-season Grand Slam.

Here’s a brief look at the way of the world then and now.

US President
1938: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2012: Barack Obama

UK Prime Minister
1938: Neville Chamberlain
2012: David Cameron

UK Monarch
1938: George VI
2012: Elizabeth II

Top-Grossing Movie
1938: “You Can’t Take it With You” ($2.137m)
2012: “The Avengers” ($602m and counting)

Comic Books
1938: Superman #1 debuts
2012: Superman #714 debuts

Thought We'd Lost 'Em
1938: A coelacanth, thought extinct for millions of years, caught off coast of South Africa.
2012: Charlie Sheen, vanished from TV for bad behavior, surfaces on FX’s “Anger Management."

What Freaked Us Out
1938: Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast
2012: Crazy, naked drug addict found eating another guy’s face in Miami

Top-Paid Baseball Player
1938: Hank Greenberg, $80,000 ($1,303,914 adjusted to inflation for 2012)
2012: Alex Rodriguez, $33,000,000