What toys did kids play with in the 1950s?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 Spell-It Fisher Price Little People Foto-Electric Baseball ...
Theatrical and musical performances were major forms of entertainment in Victorian England. Almost every town had at least one music hall or theater, where people could enjoy concerts and plays. Temporary theaters, called "penny gaffs," entertained customers with raucous singing for just one penny. ...
"I've always wanted to be in a profession where I can have a lot of interaction with people and the ability to help them." After his studies, Howard enlisted in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and would later serve again in the 50s during the Korean War as the Chief of...
Classical music was still very popular. Blues, swing and jazz were easily accessible. It was truly the convergence of the future and the past because theSixtieschanged everything permanently. Advertisement Most old people (like me) know the songs from the 50s that are popular today. Buddy Holly...
These include a long-running joke of spelling drunk backwards (“knurd”), implying that studious people don’t drink or party; a 1930s slang term for nuts (“nerts”); and a ventriloquist dummy popular in the ‘40s named Mortimer Snerd. In the ‘50s, nerds were “square,” but the...
We were looking at ways to help manage that. She did a bunch of elimination diets, and Whole30, and stuff like that to start eating better. In virtually every single of one those diets, they say eat grass-fed beef, eat pasture-raised meats, so we started looking for it. Lo and ...
The British carmaker was founded in 1913 by two gents named Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford; while they were selling Singer cars out of their Bamford & Martin shop, they came up with the idea to produce their own vehicles. Some years later, the name transitioned from Bamford & Martin to ...
Of course, she did not let me touch the stamps until I was old enough not to spoil(毁坏) them. I remembered that it was on my fifteenth birthday that she first put them into my hands. They were in four thick books and since then I have added three more, so now I have a bigger...
The shift dress lacked any sort of tailored waistline, but did pinch in slightly around the ribs and skimmed over the hips to just above the knee. This loose but narrow looking dress was very comfortable and easy to wear. It became the primary women’s dress style of the 1960s. ...
Filmmaker:And how did you approach this challenge? Sachs:Two things happened. One is I started to explore a bunch of films that were made in the ’60s and ’70s that had done that successfully, that were very intimate and simple but also had cuts and e...