Choose any decade and add at least 10 things, you don't have to necessarily be alive during the decade.

1950s

1. Rock and Roll (Except Elvis - Yuck)

2. Marilyn Monroe

3. Century of Progress - 1950 Canterbury centenary

4. Toni Perms

5. Wall cabinet record players

6. Kidney shaped coffee tables

7. Miles Davis

8. 50s cars

9. 1950s Stamps

10. Queen Elizabeths Coronation

1920s

1. Flappers

2. Jazz Music

3. The Gold standard (People used gold sovereigns here rather than bank notes)

4. 1920s architetcture

5. Silent movies

6. 1920 Victory set of stamps (New Zealand Stamp Issue)

7. Maltas stamps in the 1920s

8. Cloche hats

9. Tin Lizzies (Model T Fords)

10. 1920s Phonographs, with the cabinets and horns

60s AD

1. The deposition of the Emperor Nero

2. The Domus Aurea (Nero's golden palace)

3. Mosaics

4. Amphoras

5. Boadicean revolt - 60AD

6. Jewish Resistance

7. The Martyrdom of St Paul

8. Probable birth of Joan Rivers

9. The Later Han dynasty in China

10. Completion of the first phase of pyramid building at Tenochtitlian

See what decades you can do (Up to the 50s, add later decades 1960s, 70s 80s 90s and 00s to the other threads.

In the Cretaceous Period I loved T-rex's, but they sure had rotten meat breath.

The standard of being "classy" and "cool"...i.e. The Rat Pack. (though they spilled into the early 60's as well)

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50s: rock and roll, blues, beautiful coca-cola bottles, muscle cars

20s: Art Deco

the 1190-99 decade or any other medieval decade: loved how you could kill your enemy, leaving the body to rot without being hunted by the law-no evidence and nobody cared to begin with

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My parents.

I guess I can't get all personal on this one.

Poodle skirts

Rock n' Roll

The rise of the teenager

Awesome classic movies

Drive-Ins

Hamburgers & French Fries

Cars

Jazz

Big Bands

Roller Skates

the year i was born 1955

rock and roll came into existance.

as a genere (sp)

some negroes were gettin tired of bein negroes

before me my brothers were born

and my mother kept goin til she got it RIGHT!!!

and the most favorite part of the 50s...

THE 60s

Triceratops

Stegosarus

Tyrannosarus Rex

Brontosaurs

fire

The Wheel

Betty White

kpowers said:

Triceratops

Stegosarus

Tyrannosarus Rex

Brontosaurs

fire

The Wheel

Betty White

the velociraptors are mad at you right now...leg it...

JoeTyler said:

50s: rock and roll, blues, beautiful coca-cola bottles, muscle cars

20s: Art Deco

the 1190-99 decade or any other medieval decade: loved how you could kill your enemy, leaving the body to rot without being hunted by the law-no evidence and nobody cared to begin with

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I swear. Great minds think alike. I'll add one more...penny candy. If you had a nickel as a kid, you were fuckin rich!

Shyra said:

JoeTyler said:

50s: rock and roll, blues, beautiful coca-cola bottles, muscle cars

20s: Art Deco

the 1190-99 decade or any other medieval decade: loved how you could kill your enemy, leaving the body to rot without being hunted by the law-no evidence and nobody cared to begin with

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I swear. Great minds think alike. I'll add one more...penny candy. If you had a nickel as a kid, you were fuckin rich!

yeah

but that's about it, they can keep the rest of the 50's , including the segregation, the blatant mysogyny, the nuclear escalation or the Duck & Cover! videos...

I guess driving all night while listening to a Rock&Roll station on the car radio was the best/easiest way to escape from the shit of that decade...

The fifties era, the early rock n roll just seemed fun and cool. I'd have loved Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. The fashion was cute too, the saddle shoes and the poodle skirts.

I'm big on the whole flapper thing from the 20s - the lifestyle, the clothes...most of the music seems lame though.

JoeTyler said:

Shyra said:

I swear. Great minds think alike. I'll add one more...penny candy. If you had a nickel as a kid, you were fuckin rich!

yeah

but that's about it, they can keep the rest of the 50's ,including the segregation, the blatant mysogyny, the nuclear escalation or the Duck & Cover! videos...

I guess driving all night while listening to a Rock&Roll station on the car radio was the best/easiest way to escape from the shit of that decade...

And don't forget the witch hunt of McCarthy.

Shyra said:

JoeTyler said:

yeah

but that's about it, they can keep the rest of the 50's ,including the segregation, the blatant mysogyny, the nuclear escalation or the Duck & Cover! videos...

I guess driving all night while listening to a Rock&Roll station on the car radio was the best/easiest way to escape from the shit of that decade...

And don't forget the witch hunt of McCarthy.

birth of surrealism, dadaism.

German Cabaret Music

Baroque Rococo

Secular Renaissance Music

Enka

Ukiyo-E

Bebop?(50's right?)

Little Richard!!!

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Some cool answers guys, but you choose any decade up to the 1950s, I have a couple more

1840s

1. The birth of postage stamps (1840)

2. New Zealand becomes a crown colony thanks to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840)

3. Gold is discovered in California, setting off a chain of global gold rushes - California (1848), Australia (Victoria 1851), New Zealand (Otago 1861), South Africa (The Rand 1886 and Pieter Moritz in 1853), Canada/Alaska (Yukon 1896).

4. Expansion of the railway network (1840 still minimal, by 1850 becoming global)

5. Foundation of Auckland and Wellington (Both 1840)

6. Mexican American War (1845 -1848) first to be photographed

7. Triumph of steam over sail

8. Decade of Revolutions and movemnet of the working class (Chartism, 1848 Revolutions, Karl Marx)

9. Queen Victoria marries and starts her family (1840)

10. Dunedin (New Zealand) founded 1848

1660s

1. Over the top restoration wiggs

2. Birth of the Royal Society (1662)

3. The Great Fire of London (1666) got rid of the medieval city and paved the way for the modern city

4. Decline of Spain assured with Carlos II an inbred Habsburg with no mental capabilities (1661-1700)

5. The last great decade of the Dutch Masters (Vermeer, Rembrandt etc)

6. Charles the Second of England, one of the most enlighetened and fun loving monarch (1660 -1685)

7 Louis XIV of France becomes king and assumes power building Versailles and embellishing the Louvre.

8. Emperor Kangxi comes to power in China(1662), establishing the greatest part of the Ching dynasty, it is under his rule Chinese porcelain and other exports become the most desirable in Europe, leading to the widespread introduction of porcelain imitations by Europeans in the 1700s (Meissen, Wedgewood etc).

9. New Amsterdam becomes New York (1664) although it again becomes Dutch for 2 years in the 1670s.

10. Coffee becomes the rage in London and the Americas (It had been the rage in Europe a decade earlier)