* Women:
* Dresses with full skirts and nipped-in waists
* Sweaters
* Skirts
* Blouses
* High heels
* Poodle skirts
* Pencil skirts
* Gloves
* Hats
* Men:
* Suits
* Dress shirts
* Ties
* Hats
* Shoes
* Sport coats
* Slacks
Music
* Rock and roll
* Doo-wop
* Rhythm and blues
* Traditional pop
* Country music
* Jazz
Movies
* Singin' in the Rain (1952)
* On the Waterfront (1954)
* Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* Ben-Hur (1959)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
Television
* I Love Lucy
* The Honeymooners
* Gunsmoke
* The Ed Sullivan Show
Literature
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
* Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)
* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Technology
* Television
* Telephone
* Car
* Radio
* Computer
* Transistor
* Jet engine