Entertainment 1950's (Period 1-2) by Alison McElrath https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/faauvsrwn0x8 Now that you have completed research on a given 1950's topic, you will share your findings with the rest of your classmates. Double click a blank area on the padlet board to begin sharing your information. Pictures/videos will enhance your contribution! Provide the names of your group members and the topic. You must also include works cited at the end of your post. en-us 2017-03-09 15:07:53 UTC 2025-12-15 14:51:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/93420106/e75606224b7be50102581f52cf46e26ab3ad7e81/48daf62c0f583efd42126c212b9f6698.jpg Entertainment https://padlet.com/alisonmcelrath/faauvsrwn0x8/wish/158943068
Sock Hops by Esther Mazurek

  •   "The typical high school dance of the 1950s was an informal, school-chaperoned event at which compliant teens removed their shoes and danced in their socks to protect the gymnasium floor. Nicknamed sock hops, these dances proved more than just a diversion for a generation of teens [source: 1950s Music].”

  • “A new style of rowdy pop music called rock 'n' roll, combined with the liberating freedom to remove their shoes while dancing, gave teens the inspiration to jitterbug, shake, rattle and roll in ways that went far beyond the dance moves from their parents' generation”

  • This dance was very popular in the 1950's.
http://quest.eb.com/search/sock-hop/1/144_1478371/Acting-Stars-GENE-KELLY
http://quest.eb.com/search/-4d546b314d43647a49475268626d4e6c/1/109_162697/Sidney-Bechet--New-Orleans--Photo

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Book Mobiles by Caroline Wharton 
  • A Book Mobile is a bus that contains books for the public to use
  • They are similar to a library on wheels
  • They came around occasionally like an ice cream truck
  • Used all around the world

Works Cited
Mobile Book Service. Photographer. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 
quest.eb.com/search/115_2747417/1/115_2747417/cite. Accessed 8 Mar 2017.

In this image- some children are getting out of the book mobile with books in their hands

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Sports by Kyle Bratcher

  • Sports had began to evolve, blacks and whites had began to play together leading to more crowds in the stadiums (Gigliotti 9). 
  • The 1950 University of California, the Golden Bears football team was almost perfect they were the first team to ever go 10-0 two consecutive years but loose in the Rose Bowl (Gigliotti 10).
  • The New York Yankees had won the Pennant for their second straight win and 9th championship in 15 years. October was considered a ritual for the Yankees because they were always playing ( Gigliotti 15).
  • In 1951 “The Shot Heard Round the World” became famous. Bobby Thomson hit the game winning homerun at Polo Grounds it was known as the shot heard round the world. Thomson hit the game winner against the Brooklyn Dodgers. This hit got them to the pennate against the Yankees (Gigliotti 23)
  • Rams rookie Dick “Night Train” Lane set a NFL record for most passes intercepted in a single season with 14 in 1952. Dick Lane left a huge mark on Football he was very popular and he got his name from big hits in the secondary (Gigliotti 33) 
  • Mickey Mantle had come to the Yankees to fill in for the great Joe Dimaggio people were worried that this new center fielder couldn’t fulfill Joe’s shoes. Mickey was determined to be great so every game he played his heart out. He really grew on the New York Fans Mickey Mantle at the end of his career was very good and he went down as one of the best ever (Gigliotti 37)    

                                                                                          Works Cited
Gigliotti, Jim. Sports in America. New York, Facts on File inc., 2004.

Thomson Scores In The World Series. Photographer. Britannica ImageQuest, 
Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.    quest.eb.com/search/115_2828261/1/115_2828261/cite. Accessed 8 May 2017.

This is a picture of Bobby Thomson the man who hit the shot heard round the world scoring in the world series after he hit the homerun to get them there.
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Drive-in Movies By Andre Baskapan

  •  In the 1950 people would love to go to the Drive in movies
  •  have highs on people go and have over 80 million people go
  •  but then it dropped to 46 million 
  • Hollywood started experimenting with technical gimmicks that might get more people to come out and watch movies
  • they released teen movies that attracted teens to go watch drive in movies
  •  came out with 3D to attract and they made the screen 1.33 times bigger
  •  1955 they had an horizontal vertical ratio has been changed 2.55:1 with images now 2.55 times wider
  •  In 1962 in almost every movie theater they had had that screen size 
  • later reduced to between 2.2:1 and 1.85:1
  • The picture below is of a drive in movie theater.
                                                              Works Cited
Batchelor, Bob. "Film in the 1950s." Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas, ABC-CLIO, 2017, popculture.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1494096. Accessed 8 Mar. 2017.
Danish Drive-In. Photographer. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/115_2812957/1/115_2812957/cite. Accessed 9 Mar 2017.

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