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).
Click on the links.
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
Bazooka gum
Fleer Dubble Bubble gum
Movie ad for "Song of the South"
Treasure Island comics
Western comics
Erector Set instruction book
Lionel model trains
Archie comics
Superman comics
Movie ad for "The Asphalt Jungle"
Twin Cities streetcars
St. Paul streetcar token
Roller skate key
Brownie camera
Flash camera
Flash bulbs
Old radio
1954 TV set
Reel to reel tape recorders
Steam locomotive
Diesel locomotive
S&H Green Stamps
Speedy Alka-seltzer
Television Test Pattern
Yo yo's
1950s housewife
Saddle shoes
1950s teen party dresses
TV: Crusader Rabbit
TV: Lassie
TV: Rin Tin Tin
TV: Roy Rogers and Trigger
TV: Sky King
TV: Captain Video
TV: Fury
TV: Jonathan Winters
Brylcreem ad
TV: The $64,000 Question (Hal March)
TV: Walter Cronkite (News, You Are There)
TV: My Little Margie (Charles Farrell and Gale Storm)
TV: Father Knows Best
TV: Phil Silvers (Sergeant Bilko)
TV: I Led Three Lives (Herb Philbrick)
TV: Jack Paar (The Tonight Show, with Hugh Downs et al)
TV: Dinah Shore (The Dinah Shore Chevy Show)
TV: Loretta Young
TV: Art Linkletter (Art Linkletter's House Party)
TV: Jack Benny
TV: James Arness (Gunsmoke)
TV: Jack Webb (Dragnet)
TV: Ernie Kovacs
TV: The Nairobi Trio (Ernie Kovacs show)
TV: George Gobel
TV: Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners)
TV and radio: Bob and Ray
TV and radio: Eve Arden and Gale Gordon (Our Miss Brooks)
TV and radio: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
TV: Playhouse 90
TV: What's My Line regulars: Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen,
Bennet Cerf. Not shown: Host, John Charles Daly
TV: Charlie Chan
TV: 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