1. 1950’s Presented by: Brian and Marquise

2. Arts and Entertainment Popular shows to watch on TV were: I love lucy The honeymooners The families of the fifities Dragnet The twilight zone Superman Private everywhere Ect.

3. Fashion Aloha shirts Butch cut Crew cut Coonskin caps Pedal pushers Top hat Poodle skirt

4. Foods Sugar Pops (Kelloggs) Minute Rice (General Foods) Lawry’s Seasoned Salt (Lawry’s) Gerber Products started using MSG in its baby foods to make them taste better Swanson introduced beef, chicken, turkey pot pies.

5. Inventions Super glue Video tape recorder Mr. Potato head Radial tires Solar cell Bar codes McDonals

6. Important Events First Modern Credit Card Introduced First Organ Transplant First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip Korean War Begins Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

7. Cars/Transportation The average new car cost about 1,750 dollars and a gallon of gas went for 27. cents a gallon. This was the first time teenagers had the chance to own and drive their own cars. The 50's also brought Ford into the 50s style of design, until then they had been remodeling the same 1942 style car. Fords new slogan was" 50 new improvements for the "50s.

8. Sports 1 American football 2 Association football 3 Athletics 4 Australian rules football 5 Baseball 6 Boxing 7 Canadian football 8 Cycling 9 Figure skating 10 Golf 11 Harness racing 12 Horse racing 13 Ice hockey