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1950s nostalgia is nostalgia for certain aspects of the 1950s. 1950s nostalgia is a form of decade nostalgia. 1950s retro is retro related to the 1950s.

Music

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There has been nostalgia for the 1950s music of Ray Charles.[1][2]

Food

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There have been 1950s retro diners.[3][4]

Hong Kong

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There are nostalgia films about the 1950s.[5]

Japan

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In Japan, 1950s nostalgia is part of the broader phenomenon of "Shōwa nostalgia" and "Shōwa retro".[6] 1950s nostalgia overlaps with the "Shōwa 30s boom" of nostalgia for aspects of the Shōwa 30s (1955 to 1964).[7][8] There are 1950s retro shōtengai (shopping streets).[9][10] Showa no Machi is a retro town covering the 1950s.[11] Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) is a retro film set in an alternate version of the 1950s.[12][13] Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005) is a nostalgia film about the 1950s.[14] Other nostalgia films include My Neighbor Totoro (1988),[15] the 2006 film adaptation of Saga No Gabai-baachan,[16][17] Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007)[18] and Mai Mai Miracle (2009).[19][20] There are 1950s nostalgia television programmes.[21] There has been nostalgia for rotary telephones[22] and kamado-gami masks.[23]

United Kingdom

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That'll Be the Day (1973) is a nostalgia film about the 1950s.[24] Absolute Beginners (1986) is a retro film about the 1950s.[25] Other films include the documentary Blue Suede Shoes (1980).[26][27][28] Nostalgia television programmes about the 1950s include Hi-de-Hi! (1980)[29] and Call the Midwife (2012).[30]

There have been 1950s nostalgia concerts.[31][32] The London Rock and Roll Show (1973) is a 1950s nostalgia concert film.[33] Three different cover versions of the 1955 song "Unchained Melody" respectively reached number 1 on the UK singles chart in 1990, 1995 and 2002.[34] In 1999, the Cartoons 1998 cover version of the 1958 song "Witch Doctor" reached number 2 on that chart.[35] In 2005, Elvis Presley's "One Night" (1958) reached number 1 on that chart.[36] 1950s retro bands have included Darts[37] and Showaddywaddy.[38][39]

United States

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There has been nostalgia for James Dean;[40] carhops;[41] and for 1950s television programmes such as Leave It to Beaver,[42] I Love Lucy[43] and Father Knows Best.[44] In 2013, people wanted to time travel to the 1950s more than any other decade.[45][46][47]

There have been 1950s nostalgia concerts[48] such as 1950's Rock & Roll Revival.[49] 1950s nostalgia concerts have included musicians such as Little Richard,[48] The Platters[49] and Chuck Berry. Let the Good Times Roll (1973) is a 1950s nostalgia concert film.[50] Grease (1971) is a nostalgia musical about the 1950s.[51] Grease (1978) is a 1950s nostalgia musical film.[52] The song "Bad to the Bone" (1982) is based on "Mannish Boy" (1955).[53] 1950s retro bands have included Sha Na Na.[54]

Nostalgia television programmes about the 1950s include Happy Days (1974)[55][56] and Laverne & Shirley (1976).[57] M*A*S*H (1972) is a retro television programme set in the 1950s.[58] Quantum Leap (1989) is a retro television programme covering the 1950s.[59] Nostalgia films about the 1950s include The Last Picture Show (1971),[60] Return to Macon County (1975),[61] Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976),[62] September 30, 1955 (1977),[63] Diner (1982),[64] Back to the Future (1985),[65] Stand by Me (1986),[66] The Man in the Moon (1991),[67] The Iron Giant (1999),[68] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)[69] and Alien Trespass (2009).[70] 1950s biopics include The Buddy Holly Story (1978)[71] and La Bamba (1987).[72][73] Retro films about the 1950s include Badlands (1973),[74] Our Time (1974)[75] and Quiz Show (1994).[76] The film American Graffiti (1973), which is set in 1962, includes a character, John Milner, who has 1950s nostalgia,[77] and also includes 1950s nostalgia music.[78] Harrison Bergeron (1995) includes a parody of 1950s nostalgia.[79]

There are 1950s retro restaurants[80] such as the 50's Prime Time Café and the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant.[81]

See also

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References

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  • Michael D Dwyer. Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties. Oxford University Press. 2015. Google.
  • Benjamin L Alpers. Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America. Rutgers University Press. 2024. Google
  • Christine Sprengler. "The Fifties: Nostalgia's Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain". Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film. Berghahn Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1-84545-559-0. Chapter 2. pp 39 to 66.
  • Johnathan Rodgers. "Back to the Fifties". Newsweek. vol 80. 16 October 1972. pp 78 to 82.
  • Harriet Van Horne. "Now it's the 1950s in nostalgia cycle". Meriden Journal. 26 October 1972. p 6. From Los Angeles Times.
  • Nelli Norman. "Will Dick Clark Survive Nostalgia". Ocala Star-Banner. 7 December 1976. p 5B.
  • Barbara Carpenter. "Music moves fans back to the '50s". Record-Journal. 9 August 1991. pp 21 & 26.
  • "The Fifties Revival". Oliver Gruner and Peter Krämer (eds). Grease Is the Word: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon. 2019. p 151.
  • "Japan's affair with Western Industrial nostalgia". The Canberra Times. 20 December 1990. p 9. From The Guardian.
  • "The Nifty Fifties". Life. 16 June 1972. p 38.
  1. ↑ BBC releases list of the most-streamed songs from 70 years of the Official Singles Chart. WalesOnline. 4 November 2022.
  2. ↑ George Griffiths. Official Charts and BBC Radio 1 and 2 team up to reveal the UK's Official most-streamed songs of the past 70 years. Official Charts. 3 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Explore hidden gems along Route 66, from ghost towns to drive-in theaters and '50s diners. Desert magazine. The Desert Sun. 20 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Ultimate Food Journeys. Dorling Kindersley. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4053-5866-8. p 275.
  5. ↑ "Rewriting History: Hong Kong Nostalgia Cinema and Its Social Practice". Poshek Fu and David Desser (eds). The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. 2000. p 257.
  6. ↑ "Shōwa" is the Japanese era name of the Shōwa era that began in 1926 and ended in 1989.
  7. ↑ Kumiko Aoki. 変わりゆく「昭和30年代ブーム」 : キッチュからイデオロギーへ (2011) 32 社会学論考 83. CiNii.
  8. ↑ Katsuyuki Hidaka. Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-67222-2 (hardback). ebook: p PA2007.
  9. ↑ Ryota Kato. Tokyo: Retro Shopping Street Offers Taste of 1950s Japan. The Japan News. 5 July 2023.
  10. ↑ Tamatha Roman. Odaiba Old Timey. Metropolis Japan. 21 August 2016.
  11. ↑ 5 Things We Learned About Kunisaki and Bungotakada Cities at TW’s Feel Japan Event. Tokyo Weekender. 26 November 2021.
  12. ↑ Kiki's Delivery Service: Japanese classic returns in time for Christmas. The Guardian. 28 November 2016.
  13. ↑ Kiki’s Delivery Service. Cornell Cinema. Cornell University.
  14. ↑ Japan Close Up. vol 12. January 2007. p 6.
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  17. ↑ 女性情報. 月刋女性情報. vol 5. January 2007.
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  25. ↑ Janice Winship. "Back to the Future". (subtitle: "A Style for the Eighties"). New Socialist. No 40: Summer 1986. p 48. From The Labour Party.
  26. ↑ Cash Box. 19 January 1980. p 21.
  27. ↑ Christopher McKittrick. Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats. p 34.
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  29. ↑ How Hi-de-Hi! embraced British nostalgia and triumphed over 1980s alternative comedy. The Telegraph. 11 December 2022.
  30. ↑ Agnes Arnold-Forster. Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion. Chapter 5.
  31. ↑ "50s rock festival a London hit". The Montreal Gazette. 7 August 1972. p 24. From Associated Press.
  32. ↑ "People in the News". Gettysburg Times. 9 September 1982. p 17. From Associated Press.
  33. ↑ Tobias Becker. "The 1950s Revival of the 1970s". Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia. 2023. p 121 at pp 124 & 125.
  34. ↑ Righteous Brothers; Robson & Jerome; Gareth Gates.
  35. ↑ Witch Doctor. Official Charts.
  36. ↑ One Night/I Got Stung. Official Charts.
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  38. ↑ Andy Bennett. British Progressive Pop 1970-1980. 2020. p 103.
  39. ↑ Dave McAleer. Chart Beats. ISBN 0-85112-964-1. Guinness Publishing. p 95.
  40. ↑ Dwyer. "Star Legacies: James Dean and Sandra Dee in the Re-Generation". Back to the Fifties. Chapter 5. pp 147 to 178.
  41. ↑ The latest US food trend is 1950s nostalgia with the return of carhops. CNN travel. 6 August 2020.
  42. ↑ Jerry Buck. "Gee Wiz: The Beaver is Back". Lawrence Journal-World. 16 November 1982. p 28.
  43. ↑ Lee Margulies. "Resurrection Of Old TV Programs Results From Public Nostalgia Kick". The Robesonian. 8 February 1976. p 8B. From Associated Press.
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  45. ↑ We still like Ike. The Economist. 20 August 2013.
  46. ↑ Poll: What decade would you most like to time-travel back to?. CBS News. 20 August 2013.
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  48. 1 2 Terry Pace. "Coasters, Checker Revive Spirit". Times Daily 30 August 1985. p 5B.
  49. 1 2 Jan Hodenfield. "Rock and Roll Revival". Ben Fong-Torres (ed). The Rolling Stone Rock 'N Roll Reader. Bantam Books. 1974. pp 426 & 427. [Dated 29 November 1969].
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  63. ↑ Stephen Tropiano. "Grease and the 1950s Nostalgia Craze". Grease. (Music on Film series). Limelight. 2011. Chapter 1.
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  71. ↑ M Keith Booker. Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange. Praeger. 2007. p 62.
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  73. ↑ Elsebeth Hurup. "Bridge Over Troubled Water: Nostalgia for the Fifties in Movies of the Seventies and Eighties". Dale Carter (ed). Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America. The Dolphin. No 23: Autumn 1992. (Aarhus University Press). p 56.
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  75. ↑ Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1995, p 969
  76. ↑ David Wharton and Jeremy Grant. Teaching Analysis of Film Language. British Film Institute. 2005. ISBN 0-85170-981-8. p 65.
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  78. ↑ Mark Halloran and Thomas A White. "Pop Soundtrack Music for Film" (1989) 7 The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, (ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries), No 2: Winter 1989, p 1 at p 2.
  79. ↑ Emily E Auger. Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres. Intellect. 2011. pp 321 & 322.
  80. ↑ Want some nostalgia? Try one of these nine 50s-themed diners in Louisiana. Shreveport Times. 6 June 2026.
  81. ↑ Walt Disney World & Orlando for Dummies. 2002. pp 127, 130 & 154.
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