The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. “America at this moment,” said the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945, “stands at the summit of the world.”
During the 1950s, it was easy to see what Churchill meant. The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before.
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| A 1950s Ford with a ‘Welcome to Colorful Colorado’ |
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| An old man walks up stairs in a small Belgian town |
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| Back in the day when you traveled slow enough to see animals along the way |
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| Camels in the desert |
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| Cherokee street scene |
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| Classic cars line up in the desert at this rest stop |
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| Covered bridge near Johnson City, Tennessee |
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| Driving through the redwood tree, Oregon |
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| Harvesting of sugar beets in Germany |
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| Holland residential street with canal |
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| In his wooden shoes, this little boy in Holland stops to lay in the sand |
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| Kingston, Jamaica street scene |
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| Main street in USA |
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| Malibu Beach Colony |
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| Paris and the Eiffel Tower |
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| Pit stop for cars and buses |
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| Quebec City Saint Louis Gate |
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| Salton Sea Beach sign |
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| Salton Sea Beach, California |
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| Scene from Holland showing Dutch milk seller and woman on bike |
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| Skalkaho Highway, Montana |
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| The famous Cliff House, San Francisco, California |
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| Two young men getting their gear ready for a camping trip next to their station wagon |
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| Yosemite Glacier Park |
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| Young woman is tossed in the air on a large fur from an old |