Overview Of Important Events Happened In The 1950’S

In the 50’s there were a lot of important events and keys. The Korean war began. North Korea invaded South Korea in June. The 50’s was an era called the Golden Age of capitalism, a period of unrivaled economic growth that benefited both the capitalists and workers, as a result of higher wages. The culture of the 1950’s was a sense of uniformity pervaded American society. Conformity was common, as young and old alike followed group norms rather than striking out on their own. The things that were most popular in the 50’s were The Red Scare And Civil Defense Drills, Goiter Pills, Holt Hours, Polio Epidemics, The Mickey Mouse Club And The Mouseketeer, Davy Crockett and Coonskin Cap, Elvis Presley And Rockabilly. People in the 1950’s wore tea length swing dresses with petticoats for fullness, slim sheath dresses and tailored suits, pencil or circle skirts, poodle skirts for teens, capri pants and high waisted jeans, peter pan collar blouses, twin set cardigan sweaters, swing coats in winter, kitten heels, saddle shoes, stiletto heels. The prices of food was cheap. A gallon of milk was only 89 cents. Nowadays milk in 1. 00 or more. The cars were even cheap. The average of a new car was 1,510 in 1950 and by the end of the decade it was 2,200. Even a Chevrolet Corvette was only 3,631 in 1958. A cadillac convertible sold for 5,400 in 1959 with a 325 horsepower engine.

The sports in the 1950’s were kinda like nowadays. The big sports were baseball and boxing. Football and golf were growing. The first computer, antibiotics and vaccines, television sets become available to the average American. The hairstyles back then were the poodle cut, the bouffant, pompadour, the pixie, thick fringe, the duck tail, short and curly, and ponytails. The main television show they watched back then was the Mickey Mouse clubhouse, I love Lucy, and The twilight zone. The games they played back then were play-doh, silly putty, magic 8 ball, frisbee, slinky, pogo sticks, hula hoop, miniature basketball. Their jobs were mainly industrial and agricultural, with many men working in blue-collar jobs as mechanics, plumbers, bus drivers, warehouse workers and road construction workers. Some worked on office jobs as executives and middle management. In the 1950’s they ate meatloaf, swanson frozen dinners, tuna noodle casserole, baked alaska, and deviled eggs. Their fast food restaurants became very popular during the 1950’s because families were busy and needed a place where they could quickly pick up food; people also wanted to be able to get quick food that they could eat in front of their new tv’s. That's what they did in the 50’s and what it was lke in the 50’s.