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the nifty fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? … …Thus, in the way that people looked and dressed, in the cars that they drove, in the houses that they lived in, and in a myriad of other day-to-day aspects of life, … Continue reading
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Tagged bill haley and the comets, Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody, Ellen Willis, Elvis Presley, Liberace, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Mike Jahn, Patti Page, Perry Como, Teresa Brewer, Those Redheads from Seattle movie
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fifties: hit the _IKE button
…So, in the summer of 1952, when the Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President and he at once promised to end the war if elected, millions of Americans, crying, “I like Ike!”, swung onto the Eisenhower bandwagon. The country … Continue reading
the fifties: nobody’s mad at nobody
Like no other decade, the 1950′s incarnated the process of myth making in a very conspicuous manner into rosy myths in the shadows of unrosy reality that has resulted in some enduring Great Revivals that have tended to get out … Continue reading
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