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

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.

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

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

Music• Elvis Presley• The Everly Brothers• Jerry Lee Lewis• Nat King Cole• Chuck Berry• Little Richard• Buddy Holly• Fats Domino

http://www.elvis.com/

http://www.jerryleelewis.com/

http://www.buddyhollyonline.com

http://www.everlybrothers.com/

http://www.nat-king-cole.org/

http://www.chuckberry.com/

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

http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm

To Listen to 1950s Music

• http://rosemck1.tripod.com/jukebox-1950s.html

• http://www.tropicalglen.com/• http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/

50smusic.html

Cars of the 1950s!

Historical Events

The top events of the 1950s…

•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.

•Color TV introduced•Truman signs peace treaty with Japan officially ending WWII•The still camera gets a built in flash

•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

•DNA discovered•Mount Everest climbed by Sir Edward Hilary and Tensing•Stalin dies starting a new era in Russia•Korean War ends

•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

•Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus. USA Civil Rights Movement gains momentum •Disneyland opens•McDonald’s Corporation founded

•TV remote control invented•IBM creates the first hard disk drive•Velcro introduced to the public•The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable becomes operational

•Dr. Seuss publishes The Cat in the Hat•Soviet Satellite Sputnik is launched•Lasers developed•President Dwight Eisenhower begins second term in office

•Hula Hoop becomes popular•Lego toy bricks introduced•NASA founded•John D. Pierce Junior High opens!•Stereo LP records first sold

•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.

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