#1950s

[catsofyore]

Superb mixed bean salad. 🫘 Photo from a book in my collection: The Book of Kittens, edited by Brant House, 1951.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe attending the Children's Benefit at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, December, 1953.

[vintagepromotions]

The menu at the Nite Owl restaurant in Glendale, California, featuring illustrations of owls (c. 1950).

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Renault Project T600 B, 1957, by Ghia. Company president Pierre Dreyfus had ideas for a futuristic city car. This was the second prototype, built by Ghia using Renault Dauphine mechanical parts. The T600 B didn't make it into Renault's showrooms but you can buy a die cast model of it

[sharpshooterlolita]

gangster nancy sinatra

[boxax74]

Pourquoi son chat se balade "à poil" alors que le lapin blanc porte une veste ? Le temps que le super pouvoir de l'imagination d'Alice produisent son effet sans doute...

ALICE IN WONDERLAND — 1951, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske

[versocanibal]

⁰⁰ 👳🏽‍♂️⸻ 𝕲꯭ang. ∎𐎚 🔥 𓉸̷.

[catsofyore]

Just trying to enjoy her bucket in peace. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

[onlygreencars]

1953 Mercury M100

[koozakooza]

Finally A Wolf Girl For Us Red Blooded Americans!

[filmgifs]

Nights of Cabiria ‘Le notti di Cabiria’ (1957) — dir. Federico Fellini

[diana-andraste]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Crowds form around Macy’s storefront for its annual Christmas window display, in 1959 called “A Fantasy of Christmas.”

Photo: Macy's via Collectors Weekly

[redscharlach]

For starters, I love any architecture that could be mistaken for a scene from Logan's Run. And the ambiguous silhouette in the middle makes it even better.

Dennis Stock, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, 1959

[lisamarie-vee]