The Fabulous 1950s!
Transcript of The Fabulous 1950s!
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Fashion•Poodle Skirts & Pony Tails•Pencil Skirts & Gloves•Bobby Socks & Saddle Shoes•Leather Jackets & Slicked Hair•White Tee-Shirts and Cuffed Jeans
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http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s/1950s_4_teenagers_teddy_boys.htm
http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950s_fashion.html
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/fashion.htm
*Look on the left hand side of the page for links.
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Fun Stuff• Hula Hoop• Telephone Booth Cramming• Drive-In Movies• Jukebox• Sillyputty• Pez• Disneyland• Slinky
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To Learn more about fads and fun stuff from the 1950s go to:
http://www.crazyfads.com/50s.htm
http://hhsclassof58.com/fads.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/computerland/1950s-fashion-and-fads
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Music• Elvis Presley• The Everly Brothers• Jerry Lee Lewis• Nat King Cole• Chuck Berry• Little Richard• Buddy Holly• Fats Domino
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http://www.everlybrothers.com/
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http://www.nat-king-cole.org/
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http://www.chuckberry.com/
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http://www.kolumbus.fi/timrei/lre.htm
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http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm
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To Listen to 1950s Music
• http://rosemck1.tripod.com/jukebox-1950s.html
• http://www.tropicalglen.com/• http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/
50smusic.html
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Cars of the 1950s!
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Historical Events
The top events of the 1950s…
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•First Peanuts Comic Strip•First Organ Transplant•Korea War Begins•Credit Card system in America•World population numbers 2.52 billion (population today is estimated at over 6 billion). Population in the US reaches over 100 million people.
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•Color TV introduced•Truman signs peace treaty with Japan officially ending WWII•The still camera gets a built in flash
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•First Hydrogen Bomb is detonated in the Pacific Ocean•Car seatbelts introduced•Polio Vaccine created•Princess Elizabeth become Queen of Great Britain•New president is elected: Dwight Eisenhower
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•DNA discovered•Mount Everest climbed by Sir Edward Hilary and Tensing•Stalin dies starting a new era in Russia•Korean War ends
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•First Atomic Submarine launched•Reports say cigarettes cause cancer•Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S. in Brown vs. the Board of Education.•54% of US homes have a television•Joseph McCarthy hearings on Un-american Activities begin
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•Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus. USA Civil Rights Movement gains momentum •Disneyland opens•McDonald’s Corporation founded
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•TV remote control invented•IBM creates the first hard disk drive•Velcro introduced to the public•The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable becomes operational
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•Dr. Seuss publishes The Cat in the Hat•Soviet Satellite Sputnik is launched•Lasers developed•President Dwight Eisenhower begins second term in office
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•Hula Hoop becomes popular•Lego toy bricks introduced•NASA founded•John D. Pierce Junior High opens!•Stereo LP records first sold
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•Castro becomes dictator of Cuba•Barbie dolls sold•The microchip was invented•Alaska and Hawaii join the USA.•Motown records starts a new type of music.
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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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