RETRO - Super Cool Stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, & 90s

Updated June 2012

GENERAL RETRO SITES
  Kipp Teague's RetroWeb - The RetroWeb Home Page 
  Wolfgangsvault.com - Fantastic site to purchase vintage posters, t-shirts, anything to do with music!!! 
  Where People, History and Memories Join Together from The People History Site
  The Year that Was 1960s and 1970s - The retro MultiMedia Database - Currently adding info for the 80s-New Millenium!
  Fashion-Flashbacks - 20TH CENTURY FASHION HISTORY BY DECADE
  Welcome to the Bad Fads Museum 
  "Retroaneous"- Gone, But Not Forgotten 
  frontline: the merchants of cool 
  Fads and trends gone by 
  Pop Culture Madness - Popular Culture Is The Eternal Frontier! 
MAD Magazine Collectible Information Web Site 
  Retro Junk | Hey I remember that
  retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site
  Retro Radar - Vintage Living at its Best!
  Feeling Retro
  Retro Thing
  American Popular Culture 
  TIME Magazine: Archive Collections 
  TIME Magazine: American Teens Archive Collection 
  Popular Culture As Global Culture 
  Jukebox, arcade, pinball, soda pop, and drive in movie theater 
  Going, Going, Gone: The Way Things Used to Be. 
  Fifties Sixties Fashion, TV, Movies, Hair, Food, Cars, 50's 60's Facts and History
  Listen to Tony James Retro Radio - BBC Radio Cumbria 
  History, Nostalgia, and Adolescence in American Film - more info on my MOVIES page.
Retro TV Ads
  Old TV Shows
  Trivia Facts and Jokes - Pop Culture Trivial Knowledge
The Classic TV Archive Home Page - more info on my TV page.
   Popular Culture - sport, leisure, music, etc. Choose 20th Century when you get to the site.
 
RETRO MUSIC - CLASSIC ROCK
First, be sure to check out each decade below!
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - Inductees - Timelines - The Story of Rock 
  Wolfgangsvault.com - FREE online vintage concert music from collection of the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. 
  American Popular Music from 1950 - 2000 - LSC-Kingwood
   Today in Rock History - Rockintown: Today in Rock History - Rockintown: Today in Rock History 
  Rock N' Roll Timeline - Rock N' Roll Never Forgets - Features Page
  Rock n Roll Timeline
  Classic Bands
  Pop Music Charts: The Most Popular Hit Songs and Most Popular Music Of All Time
  Links : Rock 'n Roll: General - Historical Text Archive
  Articles: Rock 'n Roll - Historical Text Archive 
   The History of Rock Music
  The History of Rock and Roll
  Oldies Music -- history, trivia and charts of Fifties, Sixties and Seventies 
  Oldies Music - Number One Songs 
  Piero Scaruffi's Music Database - great stuff here.
  Listen to Tony James Radio - BBC Radio Cumbria
   Live365 Internet Radio - Thousands of Free Online Radio Stations - find super classic rock stations to listen to while online!  
If you still don't find what you want, check out my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page.

RETRO FOOD
  Diner City, online guide to classic diners and the American Roadside 
  Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Home Page 
  The World of The World of Coca-Cola 
  Global Cola Wars (and other familiar scenes) 
  McDonald's - Restaurant Locator 
  wholepop - lunchboxes 
  Cornflakes from Around the World 
  Online Pizza History Museum 
  Food of the 70s / Food of the 80s / Food of the 90s
  BoomerBaby.com / Our Childhood Memories of Food
  Digital History - Food in America 
For more, check out my FOOD IN HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD page.

Did you know? Sliced bread was patented by Mrs P. Ride, a mother of 5, on 1 April 1954.
The Fifties Index 
  American Cultural History - 1950-1959 
  Events, Trends, and People of the 1950s 
  1950s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
  Multimedia Fifties 1950s home - A retro look at the Fifties
   A Biography of America: The Fifties
  America During the 1950's
  "The American 1950s": The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
  History of the US Highway System
    American Highway Project - Welcome to Roadside Peek - Roadside Architecture - Back On Tack - Roadside Attractions & Oddball Architecture - Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions 
  The Mother Road: Historic Route 66  
   ROUTE 66 - DETAILED ROAD DESCRIPTION 
  Do you love Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs? The Beat Generation Archive has loads of info on these poets and lots more to explore.
Drive In Theater is a terrific site to remember the good times spent with the bugs, the speaker that didn't work, and that special boy or girl. There are still a few of them around. This is a fun site.
**** Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
     The 1950s at Home, Michigan Historical Museum
  1957 Detroit Auto Show Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum - 1950s Cars to Color
1950s Guessing Game
Lubbock - Buddy Holly Center
Understanding American Pie - Interpretation of Don Mclean's epic song
  1956 to 1960 Juke Box
  1950s Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - 1950s Music
Hula Hoops
  1950s HOME ECONOMICS TEXBOOK 
  From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
weblinks-The 1950s 

THE COLD WAR & KOREAN WAR
  Cold War - Korea - another page from my website with detailed links.
   Kipp Teague's RetroWeb - Civil Defense

1950s TV & FILM
Top TV Shows, 1950's 
  50s TV Shows
  TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 50s AND 60s 
  truth in advertising - a history - the 1950's 
  Early TV Game Shows
   Queen for a Day / Classic TV - Classic TV / Classic Television / TVparty!
TV in the 50's
Biography for Lucille Ball - Filmography for Lucille Ball 
    I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball - The Toon Tracker Animated Lucy Page
   The Hollywood Blacklist 
  Film History of the 1950s 
  Science Fiction Films and American Society in the Fifties - Science Fiction & Cold War Terror
  Images - Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and Fifties Horror Films
  Drive-In Theater
   For much more info, please visit my Television & Misc. Fine Arts and Motion Pictures, Movies, Film pages.

FASHION
  Fab Fashions from the Fifties - Cruisin' USA Cybermall  
  Flamboyant and Feminine - Women's Fashions of the 1950s 
  1950s Glamour Fashion History 1950s 
  1950's Fashion
  History of the Shopping Center and Mall 
For much more, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.
 
You just don't see this anymore......
Phone Booth Packing
Pay Toilets 
Milkmen 

SIXTIES MUSIC
1960s Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - 1960s Music
  WNYU-FM Radio Plastic Tales Psychedelic Music Online 
  Rock 'n' Roll's Worst Moments - Photo Gallery - LIFE
  Rock N Roll Photo Galleries and Pictures - LIFE 
  Britannica.com: Head Sounds: Psychedelic Rock - Head Sounds - Text Home  
   The Beatles: Days in the Life - Timeline - LIFE
  The Beatles
    The Beatles - The Internet Beatles Album 
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Ok, it's in Spanish - BUT - you can click and find the names of all the people pictured on this famous album cover!!!
  Woodstock 1969 | Woodstock.com the Official Woodstock Site
  Woodstock Story
1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert 
  1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert - Woodstock Statistics List
60s Bands 
bobdylan.com: Bob Dylan
CLASSIC ROCK PLUS! - Links to bands from the 50's to the 80's
   British Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Live365 Internet Radio - Thousands of Free Online Radio Stations
For more on Rock 'n Roll, check out my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page.

TV TV TV
  Top TV Shows, 1960's
  60s TV Shows
TV! Favorite Television Shows From the 1960's! - especially good if you grew up in Dallas/Ft. Worth!
  TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 50s AND 60s 
  1960s Ads 
  Advertising Icon Museum » Links
The Monkees Home Page
Smothers Brothers Home Page
   The Twilight Zone  
  Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club 
  STARTREK.COM  
  The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page
   Hanna Barbera Super TV Heroes 
  Tex Avery Tribute - Aaron's New Tom & Jerry Information Site - Charlie Brown and Snoopy on TV: Peanuts Animation and Video List - Scott's Peanuts Animation & Reprints Page
  NICK NOSTALGIA SITE
  CARTOON RESEARCH 
  Classic TV / TV Shows on DVD / Classic Television / TVparty!
   For much more info, check out my Television & Misc. Fine Arts page.

FASHION
Time for a Revolution - Women's Fashions of the 1960s 
  1960s Fashion
  DNR - Tie-Dye a T-shirt
   History of the Shopping Center and Mall 
For more info, check out my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.

MOVIES OF THE SIXTIES!
  Film History of the 1960s 
Growing Up on the Films of the 1960s
  Cinema History: Growing Up on the Films of the 1960s
  History, Nostalgia, and Adolescence in American Film
  Greatest Film Series of All-Time: James Bond Films - Greatest James Bond Films - Summary - Greatest James Bond Girls
  Drive-In Theater - From Cinema to Cineplex
    For more info, check out my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film page.

POP ART
  ArtLex on Pop Art - British Pop Art - American Pop Art
  Kinetic Art - Op Art - Graffiti
  For more info, check out my Art by Period page.

BARBIE!!!
   Barbie: The Image of Us All
  Celebrate 50 years of Barbie
  Barbie History - Barbie History
  Barbie Doll Fun Facts

... and other 60s toys!!!
Kid Stuff! Toys and games from the 1960's! 
  Toys From the 1950's and 1960's
  Multimedia Sixties 1960 - Retro gadgets, toys and technology of the 1960s
  Top Ten Toys of Yesterday: 1960s
  Welcome to the Classic Toy Museum
Toys From the Sixties
A Magic 8-Ball Unofficial Home Page
  Invention of the Slinky - History Of Slinky 
   Welcome to Nerf®Center - The Unofficial Nerf® Site
Paper Dolls are such fun! 
Welcome to Etch A Sketch 
  Lego history - LEGO.com history. 

American Cultural History - 1970-1979 
Stuck in the '70s
   Multimedia Seventies 1970 - The retro news and history of the 1970s
  1970s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
  Welcome to Super70s.com
  Welcome to inthe70s, The Seventies nostalgia site
  Welcome to the 70's Preservation Society
  The 70s, Remembering the 70s Era
Anyone take Trig before the hand-held calculator was developed?  If you said yes, then you know about Slide Rules!!!
During high school, I always stopped by the Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop on the way to band and drill team practice!!!
A 80s TV Show that paralleled my life in the 70s(of course, I was Winnie, not Kevin)
The Wonder Years as an American Narrative
  Food of the 70s
  free 70's clipart images to download for your web site  

KENT STATE
   Kent May 4 Center - May 4, 1970 Kent State Massacre
  May 4th, 1970 - Kent State 
  Kent State: Remembering May 4, 1970
  Alan Canfora, Kent State tragedy eyewitness, victim, expert, May 4, 1970.

WATERGATE
  watergate.info - The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon
  The Watergate Decade
For more, visit the section on Nixon on my Presidents page.
  
  VIETNAM ENDS 
For info on the Vietnam War, drop by my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam page. 

TV & FILM 
  Top TV Shows, 1970's 
  70s TV Shows
   Saturday Morning TV Shows: 1970
  Television in the 1970s
  Schoolhouse Rock Lyrics
  Commercials of the 70s 
An 80s TV Show that paralleled my life in the 70s - The Wonder Years as an American Narrative (of course, I was Winnie, not Kevin) 
Stuck in the '70s -- Movies 
  Rod Serling's Night Gallery: A Shadowy Museum of the Outre
  History, Nostalgia, and Adolescence in American Film
  Film History of the 1970s
  Cinema History:The 1970s-Era of Cynicism, Disenchantment, & Rebellion
  The late 1970s--Psychological Portraits
  Disaster Films - Greatest Disaster Film Scenes (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno - with all that angst going on in the 70s, it's not suprising it was the hey day of the distaster film)
  Greatest James Bond Girls (see the 60s section for more James Bond)
  Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Web Site!!!
Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Web Site - it all began in 1977!!! 
  Images - Clint Eastwood: Go Ahead, Punk
  Images - Deconstructing Francis: Apocalypse Now and the End of the '70s
   wholepop - lunchboxes - I had a Monkees lunch box, what one do YOU remember?  For more info on retro food, check out my FOOD IN HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD page.
  For more, please visit my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film and Television & Misc. Fine Arts pages. 

MUSIC  
Stuck in the '70s - Music of the '70s
  1970s Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - 1970s Music
  Disco Savvy: Quality Disco Music Albums
Oldies Music -- history, trivia and charts of Fifties, Sixties and Seventies 
CLASSIC ROCK PLUS! - Links to bands from the 50's to the 80's
For more, please visit my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page. 

FASHION  
Hippies in Polyester - The 1970s 
  1970s Fashion
  The 70's and 80's Sportswear Museum
  History of the Shopping Center and Mall 
  The Heights of Fashion: Platform Shoes Then and Now - Stupid Shoes
For much more, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page. 

TOYS  
Stuck in the '70s - Toys
Barbie in the Seventies and Eighties - more on Barbie in the 60s section.  

THE UBIQUITOUS SMILEY FACE - "HAVE A GREAT DAY!"
   Smiley Face History - Invention of the Smiley Face  
  SmileyLand.com
  Smiley Face Graphics at Kurrus.Net 

American Cultural History - 1980-1989
  Welcome to inthe80s, The Eighties nostalgia site
  Multimedia Eighties - The retro journey through the 1980s
  1980s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
The '80s Server
  The 80s, Remembering The 80s Era
  Back to the 80s | Home of 80s Lyrics, Cartoons and Tv Shows
80's Time Capsule
   The 80s Server: "Children Of The Eighties" by Bryant Adkins
  The 80s Server - Entertainment, TV, Movies & Music
   Commercials from the 80s 
  Top TV Shows, 1980's - 80s TV Shows
  Film History of the 1980s - The 1980s--Towards an International Cinema - The late 1980s--Independent Films, New Voices
  Food of the 80s 
1980s Fashion
  The 70's and 80's Sportswear Museum
  In The 80s - Clothes of the Eighties Index
  1980's Hit Songs - Popular Songs, 1980s Music
  1980s Billboard Number One Hits and Music
  80's Music Videos
  For more on Film, check out my MOVIES page.
For more on Fashion, check out my FASHION HISTORY page.

... THE CLINTON NINETIES
  American Cultural History - Decade 1991-1999 
  Welcome to inthe90s, The Nineties nostalgia site
  1990s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
  90s TV Shows
  Commercials of the 90s 
  Film History of the 1990s
  Food of the 90s
  1990's Hit Songs - Popular Songs, 1990s Music
  90s Fads/Fashions, Index to Nineties Pages 
  1990's Fashion
For more on Film, check out my MOVIES page.
For more on Fashion, check out my FASHION HISTORY page.

THE NEW MILLENNIUM - 2000s
   New Millennium including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
  Modern Era Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - Modern Music
  2000s TV Shows
Just a mention here. Check out my Table of Contents page for specific topics.

.....And now, if you are between 32 and 50 years old... Here is the site for you! Fun Stuff as well as helpful stuff!  
A Boomer's International Web Site 
THE BABY BOOM: A HISTORY 
  Babyboomers.com |  What Happened the Year You Were Born?
I Remember JFK: A Baby Boomer's Pleasant Reminiscing Spot
Boomernet -- The Baby Boomers' Surfing Center
Oldies Music - Number One Songs 
   Baby Boomer Head Quarters
The Official Baby Boomer Qualifying Exam 
What's a Boomer?
BBHQ: Boomer Statistics 
The Boomer Years
  BBHQ Music Room
BBHQ: Who Said That?
BBHQ Trivia Library
The Boomers and the Gen-X'ers
  Babyboomers.com | A website for Baby Boomers
The Boomer Initiative - Baby Boomer News
   Voice of the Shuttle: Cyberculture Page 
Food of the 70s / Food of the 80s / Food of the 90s
  BoomerBaby.com / Our Childhood Memories of Food

FOR MORE INFO ON THE 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, & 90s, PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING PAGES FROM MY SITE:  

 20th &21st Century America & Cold War thru the Wars in Iraq/Afghanistan