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

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-product-comes-to-mind-when-you-think-1950s/680855/52 "2014-02-09T17:52:04Z")

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TV sets. Specifically, B&W sets.

> [@digs](#):
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> 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.

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