Everything you ever wanted to know about the '50s

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As we valiantly browsed the web in search of stuff that might be of interest to the Fallout community, we came across some rather nifty sites. Besides several solid hentai shrines and a superb furry porn ring, we also found Mr. Pop History, an interesting site about pop culture and history of the second half of the 20th century.
<blockquote>Welcome the hardest working pop history, pop culture, trivia and time machine on the planet. Look back week-by-week and rediscover old friends, wonderful trivia and those things you just forgot. If you weren’t around, you’ll be fascinated by this virtual time travel. Browse the week-by-week sections in each decade. Be sure to come back each week as the site expands, or get entertained in the “Ask Mr. Pop History” section – the Ann Landers of pop culture. New Q&A’s added every week or browse hundreds of past Q&A’s.

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The content is fun, easy-to-read and is contagious. My promise to you is to make this the greatest-ever pop culture/pop history place in the world. No one looks at the past 5 decades better. Get the news, pop music, pop albums, pop radio, television, and television news. Hi-tech, movies, Hollywood trends, sports, medical and everything else week-by-week. Come back 10 minutes a week, and I’ll make you a pop culture expert. You’ll be the life of the party!</blockquote>
Needless to say, the site has a comprehensive page about the '50s that is sure to intrigue any Fallout fan with its numerous scans of movie posters, record covers, magazine articles and other printed items from that era. Enjoy!

Link: Mr. Pop History
 
Great find! Something new for me to read at work when I'm bored - which is pretty much all the time.
 
Damn...the Crosley Ultratuner, I've repaired one of those a few years back for an antique TV. Solid and rather inexpensive compared to the other models of that time. The legacy of Crosley is unbelievable, including this neat application of facsimile technology. It allowed people to print out the daily news from home as it was transmitted by a station.

Also, many of those pages give excellent music references for that period.
 
Ashmo said:
It's like a crossbreed between a FAX and a radio.

Teh amazing.

Yeah, supposedly it along with the TV were going to kill of both the telegraph and the conventional form of the newspaper (no delivery person needed), just like the internet was supposedly going to kill off newspapers (and has to a more effective level than the Reado Radio Print).

The telegraph/telgram by Western Union was finally killed off recently, and the newspapers still survive for now.
 
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