1950s American Culture

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1950s AmericanCulture
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Fifties Fads

• The hula hoop became a cultural phenomenon

• People crammed themselves into telephone booths,
  creating a new national competitive sport

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More Fifties Fads

• Every kid needed a coonskin cap, just like Davy
  Crockett!

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Poodle Mania!

• People went crazy for all things poodle, (think
  poodle skirts!)
• Women even went so
• far as to get poodle
• haircuts!

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Fifties Fashion
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Fifties Slang

• Backseat Bingo Necking in a Car

Big Daddy An Older Person
Bent Eight A V-8 Engine for Hot Rods
Bread Money
Swell Good, Great
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Leave it to Beaver
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