/r/1950s
A place to share articles, stories, photos, and videos from America's halcyon days.
The cars, the clothes, the music, the movies, the art, and the culture: it all belongs here.
Feel free to post items of substance - the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, the Cold War and Space Race were hot, environmentalism was nascent, and under society's pristine veneer was an undercurrent of new thinking and the unstoppable force of change.
Just a place to share articles, stories, photos, and videos from America's halcyon days.
The cars, the clothes, the music, the movies, the culture: it all belongs here.
Nothing past 1959, please.
1950s Posts By Type:
• Car
• Event
• Humor
• Image
• Literature
• Movie
• Music
• Personality
• Product
• Stage
• Tech
• TV
1950s Posts By Year:
• 1950
• 1951
• 1952
• 1953
• 1954
• 1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959
20th Century Subreddits:
• /r/1910s.
• /r/1920s/.
• /r/t:1930s/.
• /r/1940s/.
• /r/1950s.
• /r/1960s and /r/Sixties.
• /r/1970s and /r/seventies.
• /r/1980s and /r/80s.
• /r/1990s.
Suggested Links:
• Old Photos Multi-Reddit
• History Network
•Rockabilly
/r/1950s
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Sophia Loren at the Cannes film festival in Venice between April 26 to May 10, 1955.
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Actress Jane Russell in one of her dresses used for the film "The revolt of mamie Srover" Designed by William Travilla, 1956
20:57 UTC
Lauren Bacall, 1950
15:32 UTC
The Seven Samurai (1954)
14:21 UTC
Natalie Wood (late 50s)
13:09 UTC
Need help identify the brand of these 1950s stove and oven combo, DM for images
Installed when the house was built 1953, my grandfather has no idea what brand it is. If anyone has any ideas as to what brand they are it would be greatly appreciated!
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Peggy Dow (1950)
23:14 UTC
Hey good afternoon I am just trying to make anyone’s day today
21:14 UTC
Jayne Mansfield in a local store, circa 1950s.
18:36 UTC
Greta Thyssen, from Denmark, 1950s.
18:34 UTC
Marilyn Monroe (1953)
14:03 UTC
She was ahead of her times.
12:02 UTC
Marilyn Monroe.
14:31 UTC
Police photo from 1952 salvaged from a stash of LAPD crime pictures.
13:59 UTC
Jayne Mansfield in a very live kodachrome shot, 1950s. With a shorter hair.
19:27 UTC
Hollywood Icon & Femme Fatale: Elizabeth Taylor [bio video] [1950s to 1970s]
14:30 UTC
Janet Leigh, 1947
11:01 UTC
Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart in House on Haunted Hill (1959)
10:21 UTC
Audrey Hepburn (1950s)
23:37 UTC
Peggy Dow (1950)
22:44 UTC
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary, 1950. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee
20:25 UTC