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Transcript of American Suburbanization in the 1950s. The first real suburbs were created by a man named William Levitt. He bought thousands of acres outside of major cities and then mapped out town design plans. ... Upon the return of the soldiers after World War II, American suburbanization started.

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The most popular toys in the 1950s were:

Play-Doh.

Silly Putty.

Magic 8-ball.

Frisbee.

Slinky.

Pogo Stick.

Hula Hoop.

BAS-KET Miniature Basketball.

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1950s | Virtual Tour | Toys of the '50s, '60s and '70s

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There's even a page for 1950s men's fashion, so spend some time and enjoy!

Woman's – Dresses. ...1950s Teen Clothes. ...1950s Woman's Skirts. ...1950sWomen's Blouses. ..1950s Pants, Shorts and Swimwear. ...1950's Evening and Formal Wear. ...1950's Women's Suits and Coats. ...1950's Fashion Hats.

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On this day in 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of Park-In Theaters, the first-ever drive-in movie theater, located on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey. ... The idea caught on, and after Hollingshead's patent was overturned in 1949, drive-in theaters began popping up all over the country.

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The children born during the early years of the postwar “baby boom” were becoming teenagers by the late 1950s. ... According to a lengthy report on juvenile delinquency in the 1955 Saturday Evening Post, crime committed by teenagers increased by a drastic 45% between 1950 and 1955.

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Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. Elements of the beatnik trope included pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, and a cartoonish depiction of real-life people along with the spiritual quest of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

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The sociological theory of a generation gap first came to light in the 1960s, when the younger generation (later known as Baby Boomers) seemed to go against everything their parents had previously believed in terms of music, values, governmental and political views.

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1950's Music Decade Overview. Left to Right: '50's rock n' roll pioneers The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis. traditional African-American audience for R&Band gains a wide audience of both white and black teenagers.

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The 1950s saw great advances in the detection and cure of illness. The breakthrough that received the most publicity involved polio, a dreaded disease that had afflicted President Franklin Roosevelt and was particularly severe when contracted by children.

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McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. ... In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers

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Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care is one of the best-sellers of all time. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."

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"Right-to-work laws" are statutes in 28 U.S. states that prohibit union security agreements between companies and workers' unions. Under these laws, employees in unionized workplaces are banned from negotiating contracts which require all members who benefit from the union contract to contribute to the costs of union representation

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The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. The film was directed by John Berry.

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Duck and Cover is a civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion

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He termed his approach dynamic conservatism or "modern Republicanism," which meant, he explained, "conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings."

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The relative income theory explains the baby boom by suggesting that the late 1940s and the 1950s brought low desires to have material objects, because of the Great Depression and World War II, as well as plentiful job opportunities (being a post-war period).