In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly interwoven ... Advertising campaigns in print and on TV promised release from the back-breaking drudgery of housework by comparing "before" kitchens ...
but what we point to and call a TV these days is a completely different object from what consumers first fell in love with. This video of RCA factory tours from the 1950s drives home how foreign ...
The children needed playing with, too, as few families had a TV set to keep them ... a pint of beer 9p and 20 cigarettes 18p. Housewives in the 1950s enjoyed much more active sex lives than ...
Young Grandpa: We had a TV for the first time ... finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during the 1950s. The destruction of the war and evacuation had shown people how poor ...
American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...
Born in England, Brady’s first memories of jingles revolve around his mother, who used to dance around their living room singing 1950s beer commercials. Mike Brady in a recording studio in West ...