'50's Facts
Historians tell of the booming economy in the 1950s. But this term was used for the record number of babies (3.4 million) born in the US.
What are "Baby Boomers"?
What do you feel if you are on Cloud 9?
Very happy
Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker
What is cake mixes?
Played with by children and adults, twirl this around your waist, but don't stop twirling or it will hit the ground.
What is a Hula Hoop?
These cookies come in a box that looks like a circus wagon.
What are Animal crackers?
Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and the Beetles are examples of what the 50s called a new sound that swept the nation.
What is Rock 'n' Roll?
What is a gig?
A job, (ie, performer's venue)
Gold Medal, Bisquick, Pillsbury
What is flour?
The first McDonalds opened in 1955. It was the dawn of this type of food.
What is Fast Food?
This is the most common sauce on mashed potatoes
What is gravy?
Shows like, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and The Twilight Zone made the 50s the Golden age of this.
What is television?
What are you doing if you're watching a flick?
Watching a movie?
Maxwell House, Foldgers, Starbucks
What is Coffee?
This fashionable trend of the 50s. was a bright, colorful, long, and swingy skirt that hit below the knees. The soft fabric was complimented by an image of a small dog.
What is a Poodle Skirt?
What type of food is Velveeta?
Cheese.
Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was know as this war.
What is the Cold War?
What are you doing if you burn rubber?
Accelerating your car very quickly
Maybelline, Max Factor, Clinique
What is women's cosmetics?
Wearing this type of jacket was a girls way to show off that she was dating a jock.
What is a Letterman Jacket?
Juicy Fruit, Dentyne, and Doublemint
Brands of chewing gum
This "Bill" subsidized low-cost mortgages for returning soldiers.
What is the "G. I. Bill"?
What does it mean to "get on the horn"?
Using the telephone.
Sweet 'N Low, Equal, Nutra Sweet
What is a Sugar substitute?
The first "modern" indoor shopping center opened in 1956.
What is a shopping "mall"?
This is the soup you eat when you are sick.
Chicken noodle.