Back to the 1950’s

Highlights of the 1950’s - in no special order:

Twenty cent gasoline
Russian satellite Sputnik launched
US satellite Explorer-1 launched
Formica top chrome dinette sets
Pedal pushers
Step tables
Hula hoops
Interstate highway system begins
The Elvis phenomenon
Birth of Rock and Roll music
Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist hearings
Senator Estes Kefauver - organized crime hearings
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage
Korean War 1950-1953
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states
Supreme Court: racial segregation unconstitutional
“Under God” added to Pledge of Allegiance
Disneyland opened in Anaheim California
Dr. Jonas Salk developed polio vaccine
First domestic jet airline service
1950’s was the Golden Age of Television
TV-dinners served on TV- trays
Rabbit-ear TV antennas
TV Guide magazine
3-D movies
Telephone booth cramming on campuses
Chlorophyll to reduce odor
Ducktail hair style for young men
Sock hops
Frisbee becomes popular
Barbie dolls
Silly putty became popular
First copy machine
First plastic Coke bottle
Peanuts comic strip begins
First issue of Playboy magazine
Table lamps placed in front of picture windows
Five-cent soda-pop with two-cent bottle deposit
Five-cent candy bars

Automobiles:

Automobile fins introduced
Ford Thunderbird introduced
Chevrolet Corvette introduced
Edsel automobile introduced
Packard merged with Studebaker
Hudson stopped building cars*
Nash stopped building cars*
Kaiser stopped building cars
Frazer stopped building cars

*Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson merged to form American Motors