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

Updated April 2009


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!!! 
  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 
Nostalgia Central
  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. 
  Listen to Tony James Retro Radio - BBC Radio Cumbria 
Retro TV Ads 
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!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Home
  Wolfgangsvault.com - FREE online vintage concert music from collection of the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. 
  Today in Rock History
  Rock N' Roll Timeline
  Rock n Roll Timeline
  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 
Search the AMERICAN 1950s pages 
"The American 1950s": The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s 
  1950s WebQuest - The Fifties Webquest  
   American Highway Project - Welcome to Roadside Peek - Roadside Architecture: Society for Commercial Archeology - 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 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
1950s Gallery, Cars, Consumerism and the Cold War
1957 Detroit Auto Show Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum 
  1950s Cars to Color, Michigan Historical Museum
  1950s Guessing Game  
   The Fifties: 1945-1960(AOL's Knowledge Database) 
The Legendary Buddy Holly 
Understanding the lyrics of Don McLean's "American Pie" 
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 
  TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 50s AND 60s 
  truth in advertising - a history - the 1950's 
  Queen for a Day - 1950s TV Show  
TV in the 50's
Biography for Lucille Ball
Filmography for Lucille Ball 
    I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball
  Desilu Home Page 
The Toon Tracker Animated Lucy Page
  Laugh With Lucy 
  The Hollywood Blacklist 
  Film History of the 1950s 
  50s Movies - Academy Award Winning and/or Stuff We really Liked!

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 
  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



American Cultural History - 1960-1969
  Events, Trends, and People of the 1960s 
The 1960s: A Decade of Turmoil
  SIXTIES 
  The 1960s 
  The Sixties Pleasure Zone 
  Pop Culture in the 1960's - Nostalgia Central 
  Psychedelic '60s: Home Page and Table of Contents
  Sixties Project Home Page 
  Welcome to Mental Relapse...The 1960s 
Patio Culture! Suburban Living In The 1960's 
  Summer of Love
MIND-BLOWING: A PSYCHEDELIC JOURNEY
  The Wild Bohemian Home Page 
  Colin's Haight-Ashbury Archives 
The Haight-Ashbury 30 Years Ago: A timeline
"Sixties Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum"
  1960s Word Find Puzzle 
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
Time to Cry, Sixties Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum 
Assassinations, Sixties Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum 
  Smithsonian Education - Apollo 11 
  wholepop - lunchboxes - more info on my FOOD IN HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD page.
 

HIPPIES
Hippie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Hippie Museum
  Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion - Life and Society
The Language of the Hip


VIETNAM
Psychedelic 60s: The Vietnam War
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today 
For more info, check out my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm - War in Iraq page.


PROTEST
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive home  
  IPL Pathfinder: Student Movements in the Sixties 
  Free Speech Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64
  Articles: Student Rebellion in the Sixties - Historical Text Archive
  Anti-War Protests at Southern Illinois University - 1960s 
  The Student Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in the 1960s 
  Leadership in Social Movements 
  Remembering May 1968 
  1968 -- The Year of the Barricades 
   Country Joe & the Fish - anti-war band
SONGS OF THE 1960s: THE BOMB SCARE, THE GENERATION GAP, THE VIET-NAM WAR
SONGS OF RACE RELATIONS & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Black Panther Party Political Art - African-American History Through the
The Trial of The Chicago Seven

For more info, check out the CIVIL RIGHTS section on my African Americans page.


SIXTIES MUSIC
WNYU-FM Radio Plastic Tales Psychedelic Music Online 
LIFE Rock & Roll Gallery
LIFE The Best Rock Recordings
Britannica.com: Head Sounds: Psychedelic Rock - Head Sounds - Text Home  
  The Garden's Beatles Pages: McCartney, Lennon, Starr, & Harrison 
  Beatles Lyrics & Album Covers 
The Fab Four Forever Club
   Abbeyrd's Beatle Page
  Grady's Ultimate Beatles Links Page
  Marcos' Beatles Page - Beatle Links
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!!!
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
  London Rock & Pop - Timeline 
  British Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  British Invasion. Music of the Sixties Revisited
   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
TV! Favorite Television Shows From the 1960's!
  TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 50s AND 60s 
  1960s Ads 
  CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of Advertising Icons 
The Monkees Home Page
Smothers Brothers Home Page
   The Twilight Zone  
  Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club 
  STARTREK.COM - Star Trek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Star Trek: WWW - Guide to Animated STAR TREK 
  The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page
  Superhero Cartoon Shows - 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

For much more info, check out my Television & Misc. Fine Arts page.

FASHION
Time for a Revolution - Women's Fashions of the 1960s 
the 60s ladies' style site 
   History of the Shopping Center and Mall 

For more info, check out my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.

MOVIES OF THE SIXTIES!
Growing Up on the Films of the 1960s
  The 1960s: Movies - Pop Culture Madness!  
The ULTIMATE James Bond Web Page

For more info, check out my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film page.

POP ART
WWW Pop Art: Index
  Keith Haring
Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol

For more info, check out my Art by Period page.

BARBIE!!!
Barbie: The Image of Us All 
Barbie: Introduction
  Inventing Barbie 
  Barbie in the Sixties 
  Barbie in the Seventies and Eighties 
  Barbie in the Nineties
How Barbie Relates To Suburbia


... and other 60s toys!!!
Kid Stuff! Toys and games from the 1960's! 
Toys From the Sixties
A Magic 8-Ball Unofficial Home Page
Slinky page-History
   Welcome to Nerf®Center - The Unofficial Nerf® Site
Paper Dolls are such fun! 
Welcome to Etch A Sketch 
  CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of Advertising Icons 
  LEGO.com - click on "Site Index" for Lego history. 



American Cultural History - 1970-1979
Stuck in the '70s
DeeT's 70s Page
Welcome to inthe70s, The Seventies nostalgia site
Welcome to the 70's Preservation Society
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
Welcome to RETRO  

KENT STATE
TIMELINE: Kent State Shootings
May 4th, 1970 - Kent State
Alan Canfora, Kent State tragedy eyewitness, victim, expert, May 4, 1970.
Four Dead In Ohio: Was There A Conspiracy At Kent State?

VIETNAM ENDS
For info on the Vietnam War, drop by my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm - Enduring Freedom page.

TV & FILM
Top TV Shows, 1970's
70s Children's TV
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
Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Web Site!!!
Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Web Site - it all began in 1977!!!
CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of Advertising Icons
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
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 
  History of the Shopping Center and Mall 

For much more, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.

TOYS
Stuck in the '70s - Toys
Barbie in the Seventies and Eighties
CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of Advertising Icons


THE UBIQUITOUS SMILEY FACE - "HAVE A GREAT DAY!"
Always a smile for everyone.
SmileyLand.com
Smiley Face Collector
Smiley Face Graphics at Kurrus.Net


American Cultural History - 1980-1989
TIMELINE: 1980s
Welcome to inthe80s, The Eighties nostalgia site
The '80s Server
80's Time Capsule
Livin' in the Eighties
The 80s Server: "Children Of The Eighties" by Bryant Adkins
Fashion advances for 1997 merely mirror fashion of 1980s
Art & Fashion In The 1980's
Maps from The 1980's
Artists and Musicians In The 1980's
Eighties Identities: People
Eighties Links
Commercials from the 80s
Top TV Shows, 1980's
Food of the 80s
Welcome to RETRO  


... THE CLINTON NINETIES
American Cultural History - Decade 1991-1999
Welcome to inthe90s, The Nineties nostalgia site
Top TV Shows, 1990's
Commercials of the 90s
Food of the 90s
  90s Fads/Fashions, Index to Nineties Pages 

.....And now, if you are between 39 and 55 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 
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
What happened the year you were born?
BBHQ Music Room
BBHQ: Who Said That?
BBHQ Trivia Library
The Boomers and the Gen-X'ers
The Boomer Initiative - Baby Boomer News
About The Boomer Initiative
Welcome to RETRO
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 Century America
Cold War thru the War in Iraq
 

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