The most popular fads from decades past
Find out what was popular when your parents were kids, or take a nostalgic trip down memory lane from your own childhood:
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Colored streamers for bicycle handlebars
baseball cards
in your bike's wheel spokes (to make a fwap-fwap sound)
TV Dinners
Drive-in theaters
Panty Raids
Letter Sweaters
Jukeboxes
Fins and chrome on cars
Abstract expressionism
Diners
Teenyboppers
DA Haircut
Blue suede loafers
Bunny hop
Sock Hops
Gumby
Quiff hairdo
Kit-Cat Klock
Flat tops
Tupperware
The Boomerang
Carhop (waiter/waitress on rollerskates)
Elvis
Silly Putty
Bazooka Joe
TV Dinners
Tiki culture
Spud Guns
Sideburns
Whiffle ball
Bubble Gum Cigars
Hokey Pokey
Saddle Shoes
Beehive hair
Fast food
Chicken Dance
Watching for flying saucers
Pompadour hairdo
Beanie (cap)
Scrabble
Frisbees
Mr. Potato Head
Hula Hoop
Blue jeans
Blackjack Chewing Gum
Poodle cut hairdo
Pez
Paint-by-number
Hopalong Cassidy guns
Coonskin Caps
Creepers (shoes)
Disneyland
3D Movies
Davy Crockett
Poodle Skirts
Neon signs
Droodle (cartoon)
The Red Scare / Commies
Cinch belts
Telephone Booth Stuffing
James Dean
TV tray
Crew Cuts
Legos
Ant Farms
Slinky |
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