What did a teen bedroom look like in the 1950s?
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http://www.greasemovie.com
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No!..... I was 'Living on the Ceiling' at the time..... because there's no more room down there!!!!!\n\nThey were great, but I don't think I have any albums in my collection!\n\nNow there's a trip back to the 80's!!!
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I actually remember my nursey from before I was one. My parents knew they were moving and never really did my nursery in the old house. So, one day recently, I described it to my mom and her jaw dropped. I remembered details throughout the room from the visual perspective of me, as a baby, in the crib. I remember that my crib was in between two windows and there was a mobile above me and the room was wood paneled (70's). I can remember where the door was and the light sources. Pretty freaky, huh?
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1940 Although many homes didn't have access until the 50's.
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Here are some to get you started. They touch on social life and fashion. ◘\n\nhttp://my.homewithgod.com/inspiration4everyone/todays_teens.html\n\nhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36035\n\nhttp://www.drugfree.org/Parent/Knowing/Teen_Trends\n\nhttp://teenagerstoday.com/resources/articles/rolemodel.htm\n\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_07/b3616001.htm
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http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm\n\nThen the Way Back Machine\n\nhttp://www.archive.org/
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Here is an article on this:\n\nhttp://teenfashion.about.com/od/insidefashion/a/beamodel.htm
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Presley was to music what James Dean was to film: a rebel who personified what cool was to guys and defined what hot was to women.  \n\nBefore Elvis tore open the music scene, teens were struggling with near comotose consciousness states with the soothing strains from Glenn Miller brass bands, popularized in the 1940's. \n\nElvis woke up teens world-wide.  Presley's looks, wild gyrations on stage and his to-this-day unique voice unearthed taboo thoughts (and sensations) long suppressed by the "new" generation of American teens.  \n\nAnd with this rise of teen rebellion, Elvis was blamed by the "Moral Majority" of the 50's for this wanton new sound of "Rock n' Roll"  that also signaled the onset of the pre-jet age of Americana: we were being prepared to boom-emerge from the dusty post-Western Frontieer age of social life with the introduction of remote control TV's, boxcar fast food cafes, Route 66 and the "space race".\n\nElvis was a part of that too.....as he was a part of our personal lives.
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I can remember my crib too. I loved to see the streetlight out the window. I remember family walks around the block from my stroller. I also heard ghosts whispering in my parents' bedroom in this house we lived in. Later they told me it was the 'scary room'!
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A lot like it is now minus cellphones.\n\nFashion was completely different, of course. \n\nTry watching "The Breakfast Club" & "Sixteen Candles" for research to see if there differences you notice.
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I think mixers, washing machines, tvs...maybe remotes for the tvs in the late 50s.  Radios were still really popular, too.  And toaster ovens.
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It's called a closet. Get a real room and a life to go with it
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In the 1960's people did many of the same things that you do today.  We had all of the advantages of modern times however we were not so sexually promiscuous.  Abortion was not legal, and the pill was still in the experimental stages.  In the late sixties that changed and coupled with a sudden onslaught of marajuana there came about a period called free love when many people experimented with new found sexual freedom and a sub culture of drug experimentation began.\n\nMore people read avidly the Internet was far from  available and really would not be used by just everyone for many more years.  I just read that someone said we listened to the radio... we listened to music on the radio but dramatic programs on the radio ceased when television became popular shortly after WWII by the time the sixties rolled around pretty much everyone had color tv.\n\nWe debated a great deal there were many social changes in the making.  Mom's were making the move into the job  market and it created great angst in many homes when women left there homemaking chores for jobs that paid actual money.  \n\nThere was a war in SE Asia and we were all very anxious about our friends and loved ones there.  In fact it can be truly said that anyone who had not been there had someone they knew or loved who had.  It was incredibly frightening we watched on the news every night afraid that we would not see our loved one and afraid if we did it would not be the kind of sight that we wanted to see.\n\nMeanwhile at home there was huge social change as racial equality became the issue of the day.  Not everyone on either side rapidly embraced the changes as there was fear coming at this issue from every direction.  Bad as things are now huge strides have been made and we applaud them many of us risked a great deal to make these changes happen.\n\nSocial life did not revolve around anyone thing, not everyone went to church in fact it was the beginning of a time when folks who had gone to church started to fall away people were disillusioned with all the distruction caused in the war and many blamed God.\n\nThere was a new awakening with regard to the enviornment we wanted to leave the world a better place for our children and we had huge debates on how to make that happen.  There were more young people in the United States than old people a result of the post  WWII baby boom.  The country for a time put all of its emphasis on what to do with all those young folks.\n\nI hope that helps there's tons more.  I was born in 1946 I remember the sixties well and I can tell you this.  There were such wonderful and diverse things happening that it would be impossible to put them all here.  Please don't use blanket statements when you refer to the people of that era it would be as inaccurate to do so as it would to say that all people living today like hip hop.  It was a large world with a huge population even then and if we had anything in common with each other it was that we were all doing our own thing.  Much as people do today.
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Aluminum foil on the windows, pyramids of empty beer cans in every room, loud obnoxious music over the speakers, dirty clothes on the floor, Playboy magazines in the foyer, MTV on all the televisions.  Trust me, there is a GOOD reason the minimum age is 35.
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A Room with a View- classic\n\nand\n\n\nZoolander- classsic
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Try these websites for information about the 1950's:\n\nhttp://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html\n\n1950-1959\nThe end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs. With an energy never before experienced, American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs.  Growth everywhere.  The baby boom was underway...\n\nhttp://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950_history.html
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TRY WWW.EVERYHIT.COM\n\nIT HAS A MASSIVE LISTING GOING BACK TO 1955 TO THE PRESENT.