What ONE PRODUCT comes to mind when you think 1950s?

[Siam_Sam]

TV sets. Specifically, B&W sets.

@digs

Someday I’m going to go into detail on my theory that when people talk about a decade, it isn’t an exact ten year period. “The Sixties” usually includes hippies, Vietnam protests and civil rights milestones from '70-'72, but doesn’t include the more uptight early sixties: music like the Everly Brothers and “Teen Angel”, or Eisenhower-era politics, with Nixon as VP and JFK a mere senator.

I had a History prof who insisted the 1950s ended with the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and the 1960s with Nixon’s resignation in 1974.