Two terrific oldies sites.
Click below for a trip back to the Fifties and early Sixties:
Popular music:
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htmTV shows: http://objflicks.com/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm
Note: The music doesn't match the images of the TV programs.
Can you name the people on the screen?
Nostalgia from the 1950s and early 1960s (text):
General 1950s, Radio and TV shows
Radio and TV commercials, roadsigns (Burma Shave, etc),
bumper stickers
Movies, cartoons, comics, books, magazines
Popular music titles, campfire songs and stories
Boy stuff, girl stuff, teenage stuff, special, science, technology,
military, miscellaneous
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1950s PHOTOS shown above:
Ice cold Coca-Cola
Blackjack gum, Clove gum
Candy cigarettes
Bazooka gum
Jughead comics
Treasure Island comics
Western comics
Movie ad for "The Asphalt Jungle"
Superman comics
Erector Set instruction book
Lionel model trains
Twin Cities streetcar (newer type)
Yo yo's
1950s housewife
Saddle shoes
1950s teen party dresses
Reel to reel recorder
Reel to reel recorder
Streetcar in winter (older type)
Steam locomotive
Diesel locomotive
S&H Green Stamps
Speedy Alka-seltzer
Television Test Pattern
Crusader Rabbit
Lassie
Rin Tin Tin
Roy Rogers and Trigger
Sky King
Captain Video
Fury
Jonathan Winters
Brylcreem
The $64,000 Question (Hal March)
Walter Cronkite (News, You Are There)
My Little Margie (Charles Farrell and Gale Storm)
I Led Three Lives (Herb Philbrick)
Phil Silvers (Sergeant Bilko)
Jack Paar (The Tonight Show, with Hugh Downs et al)
Dinah Shore
Loretta Young
Art Linkletter
Jack Benny
James Arness (Gunsmoke)
Jack Webb (Dragnet)
Ernie Kovacs
The Nairobi Trio (Ernie Kovacs show)
George Gobel
Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners)
Bob and Ray
Eve Arden and Gale Gordon (Our Miss Brooks)
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Playhouse 90
What's My Line regulars: Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen,
Bennet Cerf. Not shown: Host, John Charles Daly
Charlie Chan
Alfred Hitchcock silhouette for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower
Marilyn Monroe
President Kennedy
Elvis Presley: 45 RPM record jacket from 1956 -
Heartbreak Hotel, I Was the One
Money Honey, I Forgot to Remember to Forget