The 1950's Puzzle Key

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  1. Lawyer Thurgood Marshall - Brown vs, Board of Education
  2. The Little Rock Nine (1957)
  3. Nuclear Weapons Testing (1959)
  4. Sputnik (1957) – Soviet Union Satellite
  5. Elvis in “Jailhouse Rock” (1954)
  6. Racial segregation in public schools, Brown vs, Board of Education (1954)
  7. “The Catcher in the Rye” – J.D. Sallinger
  8. A 1950s housewife doing laundry
  9. Jonas Salk/Polio vaccine
  10. The Korean War (1950-53)
  11. Disneyland opens (1955)
  12. FBI head J. Edgar Hoover
  13. Queen Elizabeth II (1953)
  14. Peck and Hepburn in “Roman Holiday” (1953)
  15. “The Honeymooners” on TV Guide magazine
  16. John Wayne
  17. Althea Gibson
  18. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
  19. “Dragnet” TV show
  20. Drive in Theatre neon sign
  21. Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951)
  22. Gary Cooper in “High Noon”
  23. “The Howdy Doody Show”
  24. “The Lone Ranger”
  25. Ed Sullivan
  26. Annette Funicello – “The Mickey Mouse Club”
  27. “The Seven Year Itch” movie poster with Marilyn Monroe
  28. Mighty Mouse button
  29. Gordie Howe hockey card
  30. “Gunsmoke” with James Arness
  31. Frank Sinatra
  32. Pay phone
  33. Cary Grant in “North by Northwest” (1959)
  34. “To Catch a Thief” (1955) Cary Grant and Grace Kelly
  35. Alfred Hitchcock
  36. “On the Waterfront” (1954)
  37. “I Love Lucy” TV show
  38. “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”
  39. Magazine ad for Pan Am/Stewardess/Boeing 707
  40. Bugs Bunny
  41. 1959 Ford Thunderbird
  42. Doris Day
  43. Charlie Brown and Snoopy
  44. Bill Russell of the Celtics
  45. Route 66 road sign
  46. The Hula Hoop by Wham-O (‘57)
  47. Elvis button
  48. Elvis Presley
  49. Bobby Darin
  1. “Godzilla – King of the Monsters” (1956)
  2. Arthur Godfrey
  3. Dinah Shore
  4. Bing Crosby
  5. “The Old Man and the Sea” – Ernest Hemingway
  6. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  7. Ike campaign button
  8. Harry Truman
  9. “Rebel Without a Cause”
  10. The Edsel automobile
  11. George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers. 4 time champs.
  12. Frisbee by Wham-O (1957-59)
  13. Sta-Puf fabric softener
  14. Chevy Magazine ad. 1957 Chevy Bel Air and Corvette
  15. Radio flyer red wagon
  16. United Steelworkers button
  17. Matchbox bus
  18. Judy Garland in “A Star is Born” (1954)
  19. Bob Mathias Olympic Champion
  20. Roadside diner post card
  21. Golfer Sam Snead
  22. Duke Ellington
  23. Louis Armstrong
  24. 1950s rotary phone
  25. “Singin’ in the Rain” movie poster
  26. “Dick and Jane” books
  27. Jukebox
  28. Play-Doh container
  29. Robby the Robot from “Forbidden Planet” (1956)
  30. Singer Roy Rogers
  31. Adlai Stevenson campaign button
  32. Elizabeth Taylor
  33. Shell gas pump
  34. Fidel Castro of Cuba
  35. Joseph Stalin
  36. Nikita Khrushchev
  37. Lawrence Welk
  38. Sam Cooke
  39. Count Basie
  40. Dick Clark of “American Bandstand”
  41. Coca Cola vending machine
  42. Silly Putty
  43. Lassie
  44. Westinghouse Electric transistor radio
  45. TV dinner
  46. Huckleberry Hound (1958)
  47. “Leave it to Beaver”
  48. Jim Brown football card
  49. Kukla, Fran and Ollie
  50. Cleveland Browns button
  51. Patsy Cline
  52. NY Giants Willie Mays button
  53. 1957 Cadillac Coupe De Ville
  54. Loretta Lynn
  55. Saddle shoes
  56. NASA founded (1958)
  1. Yogi Bear cartoon
  2. Tinkertoys
  3. Explorer 1 – 1st US Satellite
  4. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” movie poster
  5. 7UP soda bottle
  6. Brooklyn Dodgers win their only World Series in 1955
  7. “East of Eden” – John Steinbeck
  8. Postage stamp for Hawaii statehood (1959)
  9. Postage stamp for Alaska statehood (1959)
  10. 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US Commonwealth
  11. Joseph McCarthy and the McCarthy Hearings
  12. McCarthy campaign button
  13. 6 World Series titles for the NY Yankees. Mickey Mantle
  14. Emil Sick’s Select Beer button
  15. Johnny Cash
  16. Tube of Brylcreem
  17. Maurice Richard hockey card
  18. Tabletop, metal hockey player
  19. Jackie Wilson
  20. Buddy Holly
  21. Bill Haley
  22. Schwinn bicycle
  23. Women’s clothing pattern – Capri pants
  24. Women’s clothing pattern – circle skirt
  25. Composer Rodgers and Hammerstein
  26. NBC’s “Today Show” (1952)
  27. Steve Allen of NBC’s “Tonight Show” (1954)
  28. NY Giants Bobby Thompson baseball card
  29. Diner tabletop Jukebox
  30. Jasper Johns’ painting – “Flag” (1954-55)
  31. Desegregation/Civil Rights Movement (1959)
  32. Color field painter Mark Rothko
  33. Golfer Ben Hogan
  34. McDonalds Restaurant (1955)
  35. Rosa Parks arrested (1955) resisting bus segregation
  36. Bud Wilkinson Oklahoma football coach, winner of 3 championships in the ‘50s
  37. Poodle skirt and saddle shoes

The 1950s puzzle by White Mountain Puzzles
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Original puzzle art by Jim Mellett
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