1950's Society and Culture.

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1950's Society and Culture

1950’s SOCIETY AND CULTURE

BABY BOOM Teens and Rock WOMEN TV 1950'S CULTURE SUBURBS CONFORMITY Automobile Cold War Paranoia

                           

Fashion Poodle Skirts & Pony Tails Pencil Skirts & Gloves Bobby Socks & Saddle ShoesLeather Jackets & Slicked Hair White Tee-Shirts and Cuffed Jeans

Poodle Skirts

Pencil Skirts

Catseye Glasses

Saddle Shoes

Bobby Socks

Rolled Jeans & White Shirts

Leather Jackets, White Ts, and Jeans

Fun Stuff Hula Hoop Telephone Booth Cramming Drive-In Movies Jukebox Sillyputty Pez Disneyland Slinky

Hula Hoop

Telephone Booth Cramming

Drive-In Movies

Jukebox

Pez

Disneyland

Slinky

Elvis Presley http://www.elvis.com/

Jerry Lee Lewis http://www.jerryleelewis.com/

Buddy Holly http://www.buddyhollyonline.com

Chuck Berry http://www.chuckberry.com/

Little Richard http://www.kolumbus.fi/timrei/lre.htm

Fats Domino and Chubby Checker http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm

The Ed Sullivan Show

I Love Lucy

The Honeymooners

Leave it to Beaver

Online Videos and Presentations about the 1950s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqgO63b59c&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHH2SNlvMEw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU

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