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Comedy:
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
The Families of the Fifties
Drama:
Dragnet
The Twilight Zone
Superman
Private Everywhere
Kids:
Howdy Doody Time
Lassie
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse Club -
Hourglass in shape, knee-length skirts, stockings, floral fabric, fitted tops, & full skirts...
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Bubblegum cigars, chicken dance, Drive-In theaters, Mr.Potato Head, & Hula Hoops.
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Lucille Ball: Actress (I love Lucy), model, & film executive.
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Marilyn Monroe (Singing in the Rain, The Quiet Man, and High Noon)
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Singing in the rain. (very popular)
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President: Dwight D. Eisenhower took office on January 20, 1953 and left office on January 20, 1961.
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President: Harry S. Truman
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Elvis Presley began his singing career!
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Polio vaccine, television, & copy machine.
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Songs:
Jail House Rock
Chances Are
Bye Bye Love
All Shook Up
That'll Be The Day
You Send Me -
Baseball: Jackie Robinson, first bleck to erase color barrier.
(Brooklyn Dodgers)
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We found it interesting that so many fads are still her today, while others are gone. Like:
Colored streamers for bicycle handlebars
baseball cards in your bike's wheel spokes (to make a fwap-fwap sound)
TV Dinners
Drive-in theaters
Panty Raids
Letter Sweaters
Jukeboxes
Fins and chrome on cars
Abstract expressionism
Diners
Teenyboppers
DA Haircut
Blue suede loafers
Bunny hop
Sock Hops
Gumby
Quiff hairdo
Kit-Cat Klock
Flat tops
Tupperware
The Boomerang
Carhop (waiter/waitress on rollerskates)
