The 1950s

By ecthom22

  • Fashion

    Fashion
    http://fiftiesweb.com/fashion/1950s-mens-fashion/
    1 Preparatory Style This is a trend that started in the early 50s best done subtly, as you don’t want your clothing to register too costume-like.
    2 Nicely dressed Early 50s Slim fitting suits, skinny ties, Letterman jackets, bowling shirts, saddle shoes and chunky glasses defined the 50’s man.
    3 man in the grey flannel suit Late 40s early 50s grey was the only color necessary in his wardrobe with subtle shades of brown or blue.

  • Technology

    Technology
    https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/technology-in-the-1950s
    1 Frank McNamara came up with the idea of the credit card when he went out to supper with a dinner partner
    2 Before American Express brought out the first official Credit Card in 58 The Diners Club had a card similar to the idea of a credit card where at the end of each month the owner would have to pay
    Until 58 no one had been able to successfully establish a revolving credit financial system in which a card issued by a 3rd party bank

  • U.S. President

    U.S. President
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
    fact 1 was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53), coming to office on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
    fact 2 He is known for launching the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe,
    fact 3 Truman served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he became the preident on April 12, 1945 due to the death of Franklin D Roosevelt.

  • toys

    toys
    http://www.skooldays.com/blog/toys-in-the-50s/
    1 When sci-fi shows like Tom Corbett were popular, so were sci-fi toys. a robot of your very own
    2 since 1956 when Joe McVicker created a soft modeling clay from wallpaper paste for his sister’s pre-school students.
    3 yo-yos were discovered in Greece and date back to 500 B.C. They were terra cotta discs decorated with paintings of mythological figures

  • News Event

    News Event
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
    1 Castle Bravo was the codename given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle.
    2 The Castle Bravo device was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States, with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT
    3 60 years later and islands still unlivable

  • Music

    Music
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
    1 Elvis His music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records.
    2 johnny was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author He was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time
    3 An influential figure in popular music and culture for more than 6 decades.

  • Movie

    Movie
    http://nerdist.com/godzilla-goodness-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-1956/
    1 A 400-foot dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo
    2 gojira was a huge hit in Japan, and it only took two years for America get it Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is a highly re-edited of the 1954 original
    3 The Godzilla franchise takes the title as the film series with the most sequels 46 movies total 4 tv series and lots and lots of references

  • Sports Figure

    Sports Figure
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
    1 Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball
    2 He was an 18-time All-Star, and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history.
    3 Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in.

  • Transportation

    Transportation
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_(C1)
    fact one Engine displacement was increased.
    fact two pushed toward high-performance and racing 1957 Corvettes could be ordered ready to race with special options.
    fact three Although the Corvette's GM-Rochester injection used a constant flow system the Corvette's engine nevertheless produced about 290 bhp

  • Actor

    Actor
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785245/
    1 John Phillips is the name used by longtime television and film writer Rod Serling when he asked that his real name be removed as the writer of the pilot episode of the series "The New People" in 1969.
    2 Serling began his professional writing career in 1950
    3 On October 2, 1959, the classic Twilight Zone series, created by Serling, premiered on CBS.For this series, Serling fought hard to get and maintain creative control.

  • TV show

    TV show
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone
    1 The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction anthology television series created by Rod Serling
    2 The series consists of unrelated dramas depicting characters dealing with paranormal or otherwise disturbing or unusual events
    3 The series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on Serling served as executive producer and head writer he wrote or cowrote 92 of the show's 156 episodes