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Flashback to 1955 - A Time Traveler's Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year. Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift.

Flashback to 1955 - A Time Traveler's Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year. Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift.

          
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- - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1955, a very special year. Was this the year you were born? Was this the year you were married?


This 70-page booklet travels back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1955.

Get ready to discover 70 pages of fun-filled fabulous facts. We look at the people, the places, the politics, and the pleasures that made 1955 unique and helped shape the world we know today.


Imagine if time-travel was a reality, and one fine morning you wake up to find yourself flashed back in time, back to the year 1955.

What would life be like for a typical family, in a typical town, somewhere in America?

The post-war boom delivered us a booming economy, booming birth numbers, booming suburbs, and the booming trappings of the consumerist culture we still live in today.... (cont.)

Now just imagine you flashed back to a town in 1955 England.

Unlike boom-time America, a very different picture would await you. .... (Get the book to read more!)


Expertly written by author Bernard Bradforsand-Tyler, a history teacher with a passion for sharing his knowledge. This 70+ page booklet makes the perfect unique and thoughtful gift for anyone born or married in the year 1955.

Celebrating the people, places, politics, and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year.

Contains just the right amount of light-hearted trivia and serious international feature-news articles.

A beautifully presented book filled with vintage photo reproductions on every page. Includes more than 20 rare vintage advertisements, many reproduced in full-page, with added enlarged text for easy reading.


Contains expertly researched and written original full-page feature articles on:

  • Life in 1955 America,
  • A Decade of Change for the UK,
  • Our Love Affair with Cars,
  • Tuning in to Television,
  • McDonalds' National Expansion,
  • Rosa Parks-Montgomery Bus Boycott,
  • The Cold War,
  • Nuclear Arms Race,
  • Einstein Dies at 76,
  • Coup d'état Ousts Perón,
  • James Dean-Death of an Icon
  • Disneyland's Grand Opening,
  • The Lord of the Rings,
  • The Guinness Book of Records,
  • A Rock 'n' Roll Revolution,
  • A Vaccine for Polio,

Plus 8 pages of Fashion Trends.

Also includes:

  • Sporting Highlights,
  • The Year in Films,
  • Most Popular TV Shows,
  • Billboard Top 30 Songs,
  • Born in the Year 1955,
  • Census Statistics and
  • Costs of Goods.


The Time-Traveler's Guide - Flashback series of books are a hit with all generations. Leave them on the coffee table for the grandchildren to enjoy too!



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780645062328
  • Publisher: Wei Yin Kwok
  • Publisher Imprint: B. Bradforsand-Tyler
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Series Title: A Time-Traveler's Guide - Flashback
  • Sub Title: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1955 a very special year. Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift.
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0645062324
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 132 gr


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