ROCKING OLDIES

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Welcome to my 50's site!
There will be a little 60's too, I didn't get the chance
to enjoy the 50's as some of you did though.
Sit back and enjoy the site and I will be adding new things
so you can go back in time any time you feel like it..
Sound Good? Great! LET'S GO BACK!!!!

IN THE FIFTIES , AMERICAN FAMILIES WERE THE FIRST
TO BUY ALL THE NEW THINGS
LIKE CARS TELEVISIONS , RADIO'S , ETC.....
A NEW INDUSTRY WAS BORN
BUT THOSE HAPPY DAYS COULDN'T EXCIST
WITHOUT JUKEBOXES AND OUR FAVORITE SONGS.
AND YES, PINK WAS THE POPULAR COLOR!

The hula hoop craze
TV dinners
Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Smith
became the stars of television's first hit
children's program.

Tupperware parties
The plastic telephone
The rotary lawn mower
Plastic laminated kitchen table tops
and chairs with vinyl seat covers

The adjustable recliner
Iron-free fiberglass draperies
The Edsel
The Cadillac, featuring tail-fins and bomb-like tail lights

The convenient push buttons on cars and appliances

Satellites
Backyard bomb shelters
Former Memphis truck driver Elvis Presley
appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show

Jack Webb created and starred in Dragnet
U.S. began its involvement in a small Asian
country most Americans had never heard of - Vietnam.

Expansion of America's colleges
and universities

Davy Crockett coonskin caps
Willie Mays, baseball superstar
The U.S. Troops fought in Korea
Painting by numbers

College students crammed outdoor phone
booths and Volkswagens

poodle cuts (FOR YOUR HAIR?)
I had one of those!! haha
Lucille Ball
Dr. Martin Luther King preached equality
and non-violence

Polaroid glasses for 3-D movies
The Tonight Show, starring Steve Allen,
and later Jack Paar

Movie star Grace Kelly
became Princess Grace of Monaco

Marlon Brando was a motorcycle gang
leader in The Wild One