# What ONE PRODUCT comes to mind when you think 1950s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855 "2014-02-08T20:44:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/1 "2014-02-08T20:44:38Z")
Tagging on to **Zeldar** ’s [thread idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=715256)… When you think of the decade of the 1950s, what product comes first to your mind? Go ahead and list others, too, but highlight the first. Please tell us your general age and in what country or state live, too. I am a photographer. Born in early 1960s in USA, grew up in TX and CA . My product: [Leica M3](http://kenrockwell.com/leica/m3.htm) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/2 "2014-02-08T20:56:55Z")
Cigarettes. 53, born, grew up in the SF Bay Area. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/3 "2014-02-08T21:02:45Z")
TV Dinner ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/4 "2014-02-08T21:04:18Z")
Hula hoops. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/5 "2014-02-08T21:05:54Z")
Age: 64 The hula hoop. It was the earliest fad toy I remember. Davy Crockett was an earlier fad I believe, and I was big on Davy so I’m told, but I remember being told that rather than the specifics of the incidents myself. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/6 "2014-02-08T21:07:17Z")
burma shave ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/7 "2014-02-08T21:07:36Z")
Brylcreem. I’m only 45, but this seemed as ubiquitous then as Aquanet was for teenage girls in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/8 "2014-02-08T21:17:16Z")
**Yo-yo**. Second choice: hula hoop. Age 72. Tennessee (earlier Alabama). Hundreds more products, but I had a thread on yo-yo recently, so that. 😉 Cool spinoff thread idea! ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/9 "2014-02-08T21:21:28Z")
45 rpm records, pluto platters, ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/10 "2014-02-08T21:23:19Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Brylcreem. USA, 44 years old. Another for Brylcreem. It was invented in the 1920s and is still sold, but I associate it with the 1950s. My second thought was Rock ‘n’ Roll, but it’s not quite a ‘product’ as I normally use that word. Third was Burma-Shave. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Dumpster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Desert\_Dumpster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Dumpster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/11 "2014-02-08T21:24:16Z")
Specifically, the '57 Chevy Bel Air, and generally, all the massive tank-like cars of the era, including the Buicks with four holes in each fender and tail fins (the holes were called “Cruiserline Ventiports”). ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/12 "2014-02-08T21:44:29Z")
I thought [Edsel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel). ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/13 "2014-02-08T21:55:07Z")
Chef Boy-ar-dee Spaghetti in the can. Yummy! “See the USA in your Chevrolet” Aqua Velva and Old Spice aftershave Pond’s face cream Revlon Ajax, the foaming cleanser ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/14 "2014-02-08T22:45:56Z")
Geritol That just seems to scream 1950’s to me. ---
**Author:** ![awaag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@awaag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awaag)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/15 "2014-02-08T22:49:03Z")
SPAM!!! Probably made pre-1950’s, but growing up my grandparents loved the stuff. Age 30, Colorado ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/16 "2014-02-08T22:52:50Z")
Burma Shave! Did not know anyone who used it, but boy what an ad campaign. ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/17 "2014-02-08T23:11:59Z")
Clorets, with Retsyn. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/18 "2014-02-08T23:41:24Z")
I’ve read Black and White TV really took off in the 1950s (while the 1960s was the age of the Color TV). ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/19 "2014-02-09T00:01:50Z")
hula hoop ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/20 "2014-02-09T00:17:51Z")
I wasn’t alive then. But Chevy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855.md?page=2)