1950s

Some friends never change, and others do; but it’s the friends that change us that matter. Some memories never leave us, and some are as easily forgotten as the last time we blinked. The summer of 2010 holds some of my most painful and fun memories and it is surely a time that changed me and all of my friends. My friend Michael now knows that he changed that summer, but what he does not know is just how much he changed all of us. Like most summers do, it all started at the end of school, the…

this new style of music. For them, it drew too heavily from the influence of blues music, a style created by Afircan-Americans expressing their struggles as a minority in America. Viewing blacks as less than whites was nearly the social norm of the 1950’s, where segregation was in abundance and parents didn’t want the “colored music” seeping into their homes. Record companies however, saw the interest and potential in this blues/pop hybrid and set out to sell. First, though, they would need to…

Entertainment in the 1950s was similar but different from modern day entertainment. The entertainment in the 1950s really was really based on your economic class. The most popular things to do in the 1950s was to go to the motion picture theatre with your friends or family, people watched boxing, people also watch NFL football games and all sorts of things. The theater in the 1950s was a big hit for America’s people, but what people really loved about the movies in the 1950s was the drive in…

During the 1950s, television turned into a viable promoting medium. With home and television, the auto turned out to be a piece of the “standard customer bundle” of the 1950s. TV sets travel through a sequential construction system. TV started to develop and get high number appraisals as the years went on. In the 1950s the ratings hours were seen at 4 hours and 36 minutes, in the 1960s it was seen at 5 hours and 6 minutes, and in the 70s it was seen at 5 hours and 54 minutes. During this time in…

The 1950s was a time fueled by the need for control of the once capitalist society. The age of conformity displayed clearly through the need of control and fear of persecution.The reason behind the massive age of conformity included the fear of communism, the section races in public facilities, and the alteration of personal beliefs. This set the tone for gender roles and many societal changes that allowed for a scare into conformity. In the 1950s conformity in the way you lived, worked, and…

used in the 1950. Several designers with totally different perspectives and ideas from this era were: Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. Among this mentioned where so many others that created unique clothe in their own styles, but I would focus this research paper in just two of them. Cristobal Balenciaga which is known as “the King of Fashion” was a Spanish’s fashion designer who successfully arrived to Paris, France to be the mastermind of the 1950’s and…

thinking about the 1950 's in America, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it black and white episodes of “I Love Lucy,” old-fashioned clothes, and simpler times? There is actually much more to the 1950 's than people may generally think about. Americans were striving for social and cultural growth, as well as soaking in the enjoyments of finally being able to relax after the stress of WWII. There was also an enthusiastic period of financial stability during the mid 1950 's (after the…

in the workplace as especially damaging to family life. “If her marriage was not working, if the children were not learning – why then, she only had to look toward herself […] Women look inside; men look outside” (182). In addition, “in the early 1950s, when the super mother was just coming into vogue as the favored housewife model, it became unthinkable to bring up children without expert advice […] chief among these topics was the fast-growing field…

Many Americans assume that jeans have always been a fashion statement. However, in the book Signs of Life in the USA written by Sonia Massik and Jack Solomon, the progression of how jeans originated as clothing for blue collar workers and gradually evolved into a fashion statement in the 1980’s. For example, ripped jeans in the 1960’s expressed defiance of the establishment and dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. At this point in time, consumer culture leads us to believe that jeans no longer…

Although television (TV) was brought to the United States (US) in the 1950s, it did not become popular with the US public until the post World War II (WWII) era. This was from a variety of factors ranging from the popularity of radio and the cost of owning the technology. Importantly, in the early years of television, wide spread use of animation in TV shows did not exist. By 1960 however, Hanna-Barbara, a television animation studio, began to gain notoriety in the growing media market.…