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Are you thinking about the 1950s?

We are, so we did some Internet searching. There are far too many `50s-related web sites and references to list anything but a small fraction of them. (A Yahoo! search for “1950s” yielded 1,240,000 listings!) We obviously didn't check them all out, but here are a selected few for your perusal. (You may well want to do additional searching regarding topics that particularly interest you.

If you find other sites that should be listed here, please send us their web addresses.

For starters, we though you might enjoy visiting some of these diverse, informative, nostalgic `50s-related web sites:

Airplanes:

USAF Museum:

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/

Cars:

1950s American Classic Cars:

http://www.danheller.com/cuba-cars.html

Fashions:

Clothes Styles during the 1950s:

http://histclo.hispeed.com/chron/c1950.html

Government and Politics:

World Map of Governments in the 1950s:

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/govt1950.htm

Health:

Illinois Department of Public Health Timeline for the 1950s:

http://www.idph.state.il.us/timeline/history1950.htm

History:

1950s, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s

50s timeline:

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/1950s.html

IBM History: 1950s:

http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1950.html

Time magazine's Person of the Year (1950s):

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/covers/1950.html

50s events and personalities:

http://www.capitalcentury.com/1950sindex.html

Literature and Culture:

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s:

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

The 1950s: Happy Days:

http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6.asp

Memorabilia:

1950s Memorabilia  (list of sources):

http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Antiques_and_Collectibles/1950s_Memorabilia/

Miscellaneous/General:

Google listings:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/By_Decade/1950s/

50s online trivia quizzes:

http://www.funtrivia.com/dir/1971.html

Christmas seal gallery:

http://www.lung.ca/christmas/1950s.html

Movies:

Movie and DVD News, Release Dates, Previews, Reviews, History, Links, and more:

http://www.FlicksNews.com

Greatest Films of the 1950s:

http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro.html

Hollywood's Best: The 50s:

http://www.intelligentsianetwork.com/hollywood-1950s/hollywood-1950s.htm

Cinema History, Chapter 4, The 1950s--Focus on American Films:

http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/yahnke/film/cinema4.htm

Music:

50s music CDs for sale:

http://www.asseenontvmusic.com/tv31.html

Timeline 1950s:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/emp/fifties.shtml

Television:

Entertainment Weekly's Television Top 100: The 1950s:

http://www.ew.com/ew/fab400/tv100/50s_p1.html

`50s game shows:

http://www.gameshowfame.com/shows/shows1950s.htm

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