1950s
Walt Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim California in 1953 for an amusement park. Under supervision of Walt Disney, he finally opened Disney World in 1955.
Um actually… Disneyland
The 60s is declared the muscle car era by car enthusiasts. Many of the muscle cars we have today were first introduced in the 60s like the Dodge Charger and Challenger, the Chevy Camaro and the Ford Mustang.
Um actually… the Dodge Challenger didn’t come out till 1970
Star Wars: A New Hope is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. Though it is the first Star Wars in the saga, it is not, however, George Lucas’s first time directing a full feature film. Other movies include THX 1138 and American Graffiti.
Um actually… it is not the first in the saga but the franchise.
In 1985, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System across the nation. The NES console came packaged with ROB the Robot and a Zapper to set itself apart from being just a video game console.
Um actually… It did not release nationwide, only in New York.
The 90s is, in my opinion, the best decade when it comes to movies. Such great movies like Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 2, The Sixth Sense, Gladiator, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas and Forest Gump.
Um actually… Gladiator came out in 2000.
A sock hop was an informal dance event (often taking place in a high school gym) for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring Rock n’ Roll. A sock hop was defined by the way the dancers moved their feet i.e. socks.
Um actually… a sock hop was defined by everyone not where shoes i.e. People in their socks.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in London in 1960. The band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon's previous group, the Quarrymen.
Um actually… The Beatles are from Liverpool.
A major event in music in the early 1970s was the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison, all at the age of 27. This perceived phenomenon, which came to be known as the "27 Club", attributes special significance to popular musicians who died at age 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse or violent means such as homicide, suicide, or transportation-related accidents.
Um actually… Elvis is not apart of the 27 Club.
Pac-Man is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. The goal of the game is to control PAC-man through an enclosed maze and eat all of the pellets while avoiding four unnamed ghosts.
Um actually… the ghosts have names.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Woodstock, Michael Lang ( one of the original organizers for Woodstock 69’) helped organize a second Woodstock with modern artists that they named Woodstock 99’.
Um actually… this is the third Woodstock. There was a Woodstock 94’.
Elvis Presley in the 1950s, rose from a shy singer in Memphis to becoming the King of Rock and Roll. His original songs like “Hound Dog”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, “All shook up” and “That’s Alright” became big hits that fans still listen to today.
Um actually… those were covers.
Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15th to the 18th in 1969, on a dairy farm in the town of Woodstock, New York. It attracted an audience of more than 460,000 and 32 acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain.
Um actually… it was in Bethel, New York.
The Atari 2600 is the first commercial home video game console released. It had two inputs (one for each controller), a slot for cartridges and had an introductory price of 99.95$. The console sold 69,000 units in its first calendar year.
Um actually… it was the Magnavox Odyssey.
The DMC DeLorean is a rear-engine, four-seater sports car manufactured and marketed by DMC for the American market from 1981 until 1983.
Um actually… it was only a two seater.
Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise originated as a trading card game made by Game Freak, from an original concept by its founder.
Um actually… The franchise originated as a pair of roleplaying games for the gameboy.
Ruth Handler was inspired to create Barbie (a fashion doll franchise) after she saw her daughter play with paper dolls and give the paper dolls adult roles. Ruth approached Mattel about manufacturing the new dolls and they were hesitant but ultimately they started making and selling the dolls in 1959.
Um actually… she was the co-founder of Mattel.
Apollo 13 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, all of whom were on their second and final spaceflight.
Um actually… it was Apollo 11
The 8-track tape was the most common way in the 70s to listen to recorded music at home and in your car. There were advantages like long play times (80 mins) and they were compact. Disadvantages were that it had to be rewind and took almost 5 minutes to do so.
Um actually… it did not have to be rewind.
The 1986 Van Halen album 5150 was a huge hit, becoming the band's first No. 1 album on the Billboard charts. Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth wrote and recorded all of the songs at Eddie Van Halen’s home recording studio. Which is also named 5150.
Um actually… 5150 was the first album with Sammy Hager after David Lee Roth left.
POGS is a game played with small flat circular discs. Players make a stack of these discs, and take turns throwing POGS, trying to cause the opponents stack to be disrupted. Each player keeps any face-up POGS, repeating the process until none lands face-down, at which point the player who collected the most POGS wins the game.
Um actually… you take turns to drop a heavier "slammer" object onto the stack.
I Love Lucy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with 180 half-hour episodes across six seasons. The series stars Lucille Ball, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo, a young, middle-class housewife living in Chicago.
Um actually… it took place in New York.
Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969. The series features four adults: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
Um actually… they were teenager.
The Atari 2600 was launched in 1977 with nine games on 2 MB cartridges. Atari ported many of their arcade games to the system, and the VCS versions of Breakout and Night Driver are in color while the arcade originals have monochrome graphics.
Um actually… the game were on 2KB cartridges.
Launched on August 1, 1981, MTV originally aired music videos and related music entertainment programming guided by television personalities known as disc jockeys. MTV soon began establishing its presence overseas, eventually gaining an unprecedented cult following and becoming one of the major factors in the rise of cable programming.
Um actually… they were called Video Jockey.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES or SNES) was released as the Super Famicom in Japan on November 21, 1990, as the Super NES in North America on August 23, 1991, and internationally throughout 1992. It was the first 16-bit commercially available video game console and Nintendo's second programmable home console, following the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
Um actually… the Genesis was the first 16 bit console.