First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Think Of The 50s

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29 Jan 2020, 4:45 pm

Bitter times.


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29 Jan 2020, 6:52 pm

valium-addicted housewives

gregory peck

eisenhower

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23 Jan 2021, 4:35 am

If you in Europe than I would say depression.



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23 Jan 2021, 4:36 am

Car centric suburbs.



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23 Jan 2021, 10:44 am

Doo-Wop music.
Ducktail haircut
People dressed up to do things like go on public transportation or to a sporting event.
Strict censorship of anything sexual.


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23 Jan 2021, 10:52 am

The advent of Schlager music in the German speaking world.


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23 Jan 2021, 4:29 pm

The early episodes of the 1970s TV series 'Happy Days.'



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23 Jan 2021, 4:49 pm

Beat poetry and Jim Dean at the drive in on the silver screen, Elvis on the wireless with his hips moving obscene, hanging out at the dinner Greaser teddy boy on cafe racers, coke-a-cola from the hour glass making up ice cream sodas, young child like beauties in yellow and white polka dot bikini's, flock to the parlour to flirt... sip straight martini's, Jerry Lee Lewis hit the headlines with his great balls of fire, marry kid cousin.. morally bizarre. Buddy Holly, Broker T and their buddies the M.G.s plane crash, a real 50s tragedy worse than the monster mash, God dies at the hands of the post world war 2 consumerist push, convince good Americans to screw their church and take the brain wash, work more sleep less buy more shift profit to max. watch the years go up in cigarette smoke as people victimise the blacks. A simple time, than our time for better and for worse. The beginning of the end for the Jesus people curse. less drugs and crime and less overpopulation. The world that once was, a lost time for your nation. RIP the 50s.



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23 Jan 2021, 5:15 pm

Mid-century modern design styles - esp. 1950s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-century_modern



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23 Jan 2021, 5:35 pm

Dylanperr wrote:
Car centric suburbs.


I like your phrase. car centric suburbs in post modernism consumer utopia



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23 Jan 2021, 5:55 pm

Dancing to rock in circle skirts.


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23 Jan 2021, 8:37 pm

The CIA overthrowing democratically elected governments.



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23 Jan 2021, 8:51 pm

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo



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23 Jan 2021, 11:37 pm

The most attractive TV sets ever built. The advent of colour TV.


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24 Jan 2021, 10:37 pm

Those Jell-O salads...



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24 Jan 2021, 11:14 pm

Elvis Presley


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