Flashback to 1955 - A Time Traveler's Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year. Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift.
B Bradforsand-Tyler
Flashback to 1955 - A Time Traveler’s Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year. Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift.
B Bradforsand-Tyler
- - - Also available in other years - - -Let’s FLASHBACK to 1955, a very special year. Was this the year you were born? Was this the year you were married?
This 70-page booklet travels back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1955.
Get ready to discover 70 pages of fun-filled fabulous facts. We look at the people, the places, the politics, and the pleasures that made 1955 unique and helped shape the world we know today.
Imagine if time-travel was a reality, and one fine morning you wake up to find yourself flashed back in time, back to the year 1955.
What would life be like for a typical family, in a typical town, somewhere in America?
The post-war boom delivered us a booming economy, booming birth numbers, booming suburbs, and the booming trappings of the consumerist culture we still live in today…. (cont.)
Now just imagine you flashed back to a town in 1955 England.
Unlike boom-time America, a very different picture would await you. …. (Get the book to read more!)
Expertly written by author Bernard Bradforsand-Tyler, a history teacher with a passion for sharing his knowledge. This 70+ page booklet makes the perfect unique and thoughtful gift for anyone born or married in the year 1955.
Celebrating the people, places, politics, and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year.
Contains just the right amount of light-hearted trivia and serious international feature-news articles.
A beautifully presented book filled with vintage photo reproductions on every page. Includes more than 20 rare vintage advertisements, many reproduced in full-page, with added enlarged text for easy reading.
Contains expertly researched and written original full-page feature articles on:
Life in 1955 America,
A Decade of Change for the UK,
Our Love Affair with Cars,
Tuning in to Television,
McDonalds’ National Expansion,
Rosa Parks-Montgomery Bus Boycott,
The Cold War,
Nuclear Arms Race,
Einstein Dies at 76,
Coup d'etat Ousts Peron,
James Dean-Death of an Icon Disneyland’s Grand Opening,
The Lord of the Rings,
The Guinness Book of Records,
A Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution,
A Vaccine for Polio,
Plus 8 pages of Fashion Trends.
Also includes:
Sporting Highlights,
The Year in Films,
Most Popular TV Shows,
Billboard Top 30 Songs,
Born in the Year 1955,
Census Statistics and
Costs of Goods.
The Time-Traveler’s Guide - Flashback series of books are a hit with all generations. Leave them on the coffee table for the grandchildren to enjoy too!
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