Life in the 1950s
By Darcy Bonnett
How was life in the 50s?
What were TV and film like in the 1950s?
What was food like in the 50s?
What kind of toys were there in the 50s?
Fun Facts
1. Gas cost only 20 cents a gallon.
2. The color television set was introduced.
3. Pogo sticks and hula hoops were popular toys in the 1950s
4. "Peanuts" and the Charlie Brown character is born in 1950.
5. Disneyland opens up in California in 1955.
6. Smokey the Bear becomes a household name.
7. The 1950s were credited with doing the first organ transplant.
8.The first modern credit card was introduced.
9. Dr. Jonas Salk develops a vaccine for polio in 1955.
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