1950s fads and trends

popular music genre

genre of popular music, early subgenre of rock music

stereoscopic film

toy

The Slinky is a helical spring toy invented and developed by American naval engineer Richard T. James in 1943 and successfully demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia on November 27, 1945.

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

American toy

thumb|Drive-in theater in Neu-Isenburg, Germany thumb|upright|Drive-in Ferris wheel thumb|McDonald's Curbside Pickup - Mobile - order and pay thumb|thumbtime=77|Scenes in and around a drive-in restaurant in Long Beach, California, 1952 (video)

toy

music genre; type of farcical or nonsensical singing or instrumentals

youth subculture

automobile styling

cap of raccoon fur, often with the tail attached

original song written, composed, and performed by Johnny Otis

type of dance

novelty dance that was popular in the late 1950s to mid-1960s