Retro style is making a major comeback!
You don't have to be born in the 50's to appreciate the retro style
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Create your own old fashioned diner experience with 1950s and 1960s style kitchen diner booth seating.
Retro Rosie Diner Dame Serving Table Statue is at your service with her removable tray to serve up 1950's luncheonette or car hop flair!
Almost 3 feet tall, this gal with the glamorous gams evokes a smile with each element from her curly red hair to her black patent leather shoes.
Rosie is a tastefully hand-painted quality designer resin serving table statue that is as comfortable in your mid-century, retro diner-style kitchen as she is on the deck serving guests burgers with breath or sinkers and suds next to a favorite lounger.
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50s Decorating Ideas
Return to rockin’ Rydell high! Pink Ladies and T–Birds. Don a leather jacket and avoid a rumble or sing along to Greased Lightning.
Fabulous 50s! A time when drive-ins, diners and poodle skirts were all the rage.
50s design recalls the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaceous furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, rock-n-roll and twist and shout, flashy hot rods, pink poodles and soda shop and retro diners.
So get creative, and design your own unique nostalgic look at home, whether it be authentic 50s style or fun and creative 50s style. Just have fun with it.
Electricity entered the kitchens of millions, and nowhere in the home was modern technology and modern design more evident.
50s design recalls the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaceous furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, rock-n-roll and twist and shout, flashy hot rods, pink poodles and soda shop and retro diners.
So get creative, and design your own unique nostalgic look at home, whether it be authentic 50s style or fun and creative 50s style. Just have fun with it.
Electricity entered the kitchens of millions, and nowhere in the home was modern technology and modern design more evident.
Bold color, clean lines and stainless steel were keynotes of the decade, and it is no surprise that 1950s kitchen style is now the height of fashion once again, with names like Cath Kidston picking up on the best of '50s kitchen kitsch, and manufacturers like Dualit, Kitchen Aid and Aga doing healthy business with retro appliances.
What a fun way to reach out and touch someone!
The diner - more than just a place to grab a bite, the diner is an expression of the free-flowing American spirit, as generous as a bottomless cup of coffee and a flashing neon sign beckoning the traveler or passer-by with the immortal words "Eat Here Now."
The drive-in was once a classic expression of car culture and remains a fixture in the memory of the first baby boomers.
Chrome and neon were the new currency in this newly vital consumer culture, and no post-war consumer products trafficked more heavily in this currency than diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks.
Bring the look of an old fashioned diner into your home
The very familiar 3-slot style payphone was first introduced in the 1950's and remained virtually unchanged until 1965.
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Mid 20th century design is back in a big way with this high-tech phone.
Pattered after classic rotary phones, your model has push button convenience, an 11-foot cord and even a coin bank!
What a fun way to reach out and touch someone!
Very cool phones to have if you're into retro
This classical designed phone will take you way back into time when phone numbers were only 4 digits long.
This rotary dial and twin bell ringer will work with any modern telephone socket. It is fully compatible with most cable networks that support pulse dialing.
This rotary dial and twin bell ringer will work with any modern telephone socket. It is fully compatible with most cable networks that support pulse dialing.
Nothing says 1950s like records, so dust off those ol 45s and step back in time to the days of rock and roll
Create a room that will bring back those Happy Days
Milkshake Standee at shindigz party props
Milkshake Standee looks so yummy with the pink soda glass and white ice cream top and cherry. Each free standing soda is 4 1/2 feet wide x 7 feet high printed cardboard. Decorate your next 50's party with a Milkshake Standee and it will create a fun and hip photo background.
Or use it as a headboard in your 50s themed bedroom
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The diner - more than just a place to grab a bite, the diner is an expression of the free-flowing American spirit, as generous as a bottomless cup of coffee and a flashing neon sign beckoning the traveler or passer-by with the immortal words "Eat Here Now."
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Hello, Happy Days!
Stand ups are life size cut-outs designed to decorate any room or party.
A great retro look for your dining room, kitchen, game room, or even diner restaurant.
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Transform your eating area into a 1950s retro diner
This is an exact replica of the famous Westinghouse Junior Coke Machine that was so popular in the "Mom and Pop" stores of the 1930s and 40s. This self-serve cooler will be quite a conversation piece at your home or office!
perfect storage solution for bread, buns, baguettes and bagels
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The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen: labor-saving appliances, bright colors and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home.
Formica - a new space-age material - decorated with fashionable patterns topped sleek cupboards.
Bring the look of an old fashioned diner into your home
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The drive-in movie theater brought together two distinct American institutions: cars and movies. Since the earliest drive-ins of the 1930s, these entertainment complexes have been an integral part of American culture.
Their appeal stretched to people from all corners of the country, offering a place for social gathering and various amusements. Take a ride down memory lane in this entertaining look at every aspect of the drive-in movie theater: the architecture, the marquees, the cars, the food, and much more.
Black-and-white and color photos, along with period ads and other memorabilia, provide a highly illustrated tour from the origins of the drive-in, through its heyday in the 1950s, its decline, and its subsequent revival.
The first chapter overviews the major events and trends of the decade, noting such memorable occasions as the first human-to-human kidney transplant (1950) and the publication of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (1957). Following chapters cover the presidency and popularity of Dwight Eisenhower, life in suburbia, the "red threat," automobiles, arts and entertainment, television, and sports.
Everything is covered - music legends, Hollywood stars, important personalities, major political events, even what cars and toys were tops! - pink Cadillacs, fallout shelters, Sputnik. Rock & Roll Generation: Teen Life in the 50s - superior black and white and full color photos - includes pictures of memorabilia. Major topics include: Roots of Rock and Roll, Hail The King, Teenage Dream, Chasing The Teenage Dollar, Rebels, Beats, and Cool Cats, Hot Rod Fever.
If you were around in the 1950's you're sure to enjoy this volume. A memory-filled look at life of the teens nearly a half-century ago!
Jump back through time to an era when sitting at the counter in your neighborhood diner was sure to bring hearty made-from-scratch food, friendly service, and an atmosphere all its own.
Those sleek stainless steel eateries can still be found with lines of faithful and appreciative customers waiting to scoot into a red leather booth and sink their appetites into true American comfort food.
Featuring a fun, colorful journey through diner history. Retro Diner offers over 115 of the best comfort food recipes from the American roadside, including Blue Moon Diner's Patty Melt, Dixie Diner's Blueberry Pancakes, and Peach Cobbler from Jake's. Short the history of diners and how they originated.
They hit their peak in the 1950's in the time of juke boxes and car hops and those magnificent train car-style diners that most of us only know from seeing in film and TV. Thankfully diners have undergone a resurgence in popularity in recent years, thanks in part to TV and film. Many have taken to restoring the old places and many new diners have been built in that classic 50's and 60' styling.
Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s is the classic guide to the textiles of the exuberant post-war era, a time when bold new patterns and unprecedented color combinations revitalized décor. Designs based on science and fantasy proliferated; no home was complete without boomerang-patterned drapes slung across the picture window or a cowboy-print couch in the living room. In this nostalgia-packed celebration of textile design, more than 170 full-color photographs accompany lively text and detailed captions highlighting the playful patterns of the 50s.
Their genesis is revealed in equally fabulous fabrics from earlier eras, such as jaunty nautical designs from the 40s, over-blown florals of the 30s, and the deco-inspired prints of the 20s. A must-have resource book for collectors, designers, decorators, artists, style mavens, and pop-culture buffs, Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s is a chic and colorful tribute to a fascinating era in textile design.
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This appropriately christened prepay-style pay station will take you back to the days of old fashioned phone booths and 10-cent phone calls. Believe it or not, its predecessor was a post pay-style phone that actually allowed the caller to place their call and then pay once finished.
While you don't have to pay for your calls with this Crosley replica, you will enjoy the functional coin slots complete with Crosley jingle as your money is deposited into the coin bank in the base of the unit.
Cruise down Route 66 in your classic 1953 Studebaker. Stop at one of the diners along the way. There's got to be one somewhere called the Dixie Diner.
Shake, rattle, and roll
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Home fashions of the 50's, how-to projects for creating classic styles in a modern setting for today's home decorator from an era that evokes endless nostalgia, and highlights the look of the period with materials like Formica and molded plywood; functional household products - inspiration for putting together your own 50s look.
Ideas, ideas, ideas ... filled the rooms highlighted in 1950s advertising by Armstrong, the leading maker of flooring and ceiling products. Over 250 photographs of room interiors that appeared in popular magazines from the '50s. Each one offers new decorating ideas that set the standard for the 1950s with furniture, floor coverings, accessories, and home improvements.
Examples include a boys' bedroom that can reflect changing interests as the boys grow into their teens, a living room whose interior can be converted from summer to winter decor in just an hour, and a den with a "secret life" as a guest room. These were refreshingly new ideas in the 1950s and are still practical today.
If you want a crash course in imaginative interior design of the 1950s, this is the book you must have.
Best designs of the 1920s through 1970s. In recent years, mid-century modern furniture, glass, ceramics, and textiles have become hugely popular among those who appreciate the stylish contribution these pieces make to the contemporary home.
Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines these modern classics.
Covers interior styles from the Art Deco period to the 1970s home furnishings, pictures of lovely interiors filled with retro furniture and makes for a great source of inspiration to help you decorate your home in a comfortable yet stylish modern retro manner.
Twist and shout with a rock n roll Fifties theme
Cruise down Route 66 in your classic 1953 Studebaker. Stop at one of the diners along the way. There's got to be one somewhere called the Dixie Diner.
The tone for the 60s was already set by the end of the 50s.
Shake, rattle, and roll
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