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"Spirit of Wonder is a relaxing and beautiful anime that takes place in the 1950s."
"Eisenhower’s America enjoyed the world’s highest standard of living during the 1950s."
"This beautiful Tudor Oyster Prince 34... that's not the year by the way, that's the diameter of the case. The year of this watch is in the 1950s."
"By the mid-1950s, for the first time in over 3,000 years, the words of that ancient land could be read."
"Being a pupil in the early 1950s was about uniformity rather than individuality."
"That's why I'm saying the best book was 'Atlas Shrugged' in the '50s."
"Project SUNSHINE, a 1950s study on the effects of radiation on human bodies."
"People have wanted immigration to be under control since the 50s."
"I saw the bodies... it was in a desert area, and I'm almost positive it was in 1953." - Pilot witness
"So, somebody or someone is building this in 1953 that can absolutely outpace our highest-performance jets at the time."
"The Firebird 3 concept was unveiled to the world in New York on October 16th, 1959. Everything about this amazing car was space-age."
"By the 1950s and the rise of the atomic age martian fever was sweeping the nation."
"Honestly, the best comparison I can make to his build and skill set is that Maurice Stokes was the LeBron James of the 1950s."
"At the zenith of the 1950s, the jukebox became a cultural phenomenon."
"I love any film or TV show adaptation that is somewhat set in the 50s."
"For many people the most important universal film of the 50s is Touch of Evil."
"America's predicament in the '50s required not just guns and not just butter, but also God."
"It's a pretty radical thing to write about this in the 50s... It's about doing things that might end up really badly, but it's incredibly exciting."
"It's a fantastic piece of art, one of the most important movies of the 1950s."
"It was just like something out of the 1950s—this group of people welcoming me to the neighborhood with open arms."
"The 1950s saw a lot of changes in makeup as well."
"Look at some more 50s, hooray! We love 50s."
"The most extraordinary thing about the 50s."
"Rachel Brosnahan truly inhabits the role of Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, a '50s housewife who stumbles into her true calling by accident."
"The 1950s were uniformly prosperous."
"America became more equal during the 1950s."
"Poodle skirts and saddle shoes were the height of fashion."
"The Darlington was also invented at Bell Labs in the 1950s by Darlington himself."
"Throughout the 1950s in Southern California, there's a surge of young women called starlets who move to Hollywood in search of stardom."
"Don't worry, darling, follows a couple living in an experimental 1950s community whose idyllic appearance hides a sinister secret."
"If I could go live in the '50s, I probably would because I think it was so fun."
"Well, this is a little can that I found from the 1950s, but I still thought it was pretty cool."
"The jet age was synonymous with scientific and social progress in the '50s and early '60s."
"The role of the stereotypical housewife and mother June Cleaver was performed by Barbara Billingsley, who also offered practical advice on how parents may handle the antics of Wally and Beaver."
"You need a very strong brow for the 1950s."
"The 1950 census was the first census post-World War II."
"In 1950, 52 percent of the households had children under the age of 18."
"They want the American dream, they want homeownership in the 1950s."
"American style emerged as a major influence in the 1950s specifically in the arena of sportswear and casual wear."
"Entering this doorway makes it feel like you've stepped back in time to the classic 1950s Disneyland."
"In the 1950s, NASA was doing some pretty amazing things, flying spaceships to the moon and beyond."
"Torpedo bras were a style of woman's underwear that emerged in the 1940s and gained popularity in the 1950s."
"It's okay to want to wear roughly frilly 1950s inspired dresses sometimes and it's okay to want to wear structured military inspired 1940s garb sometimes."
"The 1950s were a decadent era obsessed with cosmetic decadence and enhanced perfection."
"In the 1950s, tattoos were synonymous with tough guys, ruffians, rebels, sailors, military, dock workers."
"Bobby Driscoll swiftly rose to become one of the most significant child stars of the 1950s."
"Angela Cartwright, a luminary in the realm of child stars, ascended to fame in the late '50s."
"We are introduced to the young couple of Alice and Jack who live an idyllic 1950s life in the town of Victory."
"The Teddy Boys appeared on the scene in 1953, and within a couple of years they had music to express their divergence: the rock'n'roll that came from America, and provided an abundance of thrills, elations and fun."
"By the mid-50s, they have the beginnings of a space research program."
"She became the biggest selling teenage vocalist of the 50s."
"Fast food just got even faster in the 1950s as Drive-In restaurants became popular."
"It was the largest programming effort of the 1950s and it was extremely influential."
"By the 1950s, things are going pretty well for Disney Studio."
"The 1950s census gives us a ton of information on how people were living their life."
"In the 1950s, Willie Mays was the most spectacular player in baseball."
"Bedtime for Bonzo, was that a Ronald Reagan film?"
"The festival does give people a sense of taste, it defines this is style, this is what style is going to be in the 1950s and 1960s."
"In the 1950s, there was a significant jump in interest in science fiction movies and books."
"Which war started on June 25th, 1950? That's the Korean War."
"Japan has been cool since back in the 1950s."
"In the 1950s, it was a revolutionary device which provided the format now accepted as the dive watch."
"It's a pretty nice little Dodge or DeSoto from the 50s, yeah, it's pretty cool."
"Scientology was an expanding, growing movement through the 1950s."
"Levittown... this just utopian experience of American exceptionalism."
"She is learning more about queer culture during the 1950s."
"To be a teenager in the '50s when rock-and-roll started... that was one of the greatest things in my life."
"It's so good, it's about a lady in the 50s that is getting into stand-up comedy."
"Road racing was what started motorsport around here in the late '40s and early '50s."
"Adventureland is all about exotic adventure through the lens of the 1950s."