Flashback to 1951 - A Time Traveler's Guide

Book excerpt: - - - Also available in other years - - - Let's FLASHBACK to 1951 - a very special year. Was this the year you were born? Was this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1951, with this slim 70+ page book packed with fun-filled fabulous facts. Enjoy a trip down memory lane, as you discover the people, the places, the politics, and the pleasures that made the year 1951 so special and unique, influencing 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 1951. What would life be like for a typical family, in a typical town, somewhere in America? The post-war boom delivered us booming birth numbers, booming suburbs, a booming economy, and the booming trappings of the consumerist culture we still live in today... Now just imagine you flashed back to a town in 1961 England. Unlike their lavish spending counterparts in America, a very different picture would await you... (Get the book to read more!). Expertly written by author B. Bradforsand-Tyler, a history teacher with a passion for sharing knowledge. This 70+ page book makes the perfect unique and thoughtful gift for anyone born or married in the year 1951. Celebrating the people, places, politics, and pleasures that made 1951 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 vintage advertisements, many reproduced in full-page, with enlarged text for easy reading. Contains expertly researched and written original full-page feature articles on: -Family Life in the USA, -Austerity in the UK, -Our Automobiles, -The Korean War, -Nuclear Testing, -The Red Scare, -Churchill Returns, -Chinese Rule Over Tibet, -Apartheid in South Africa, -Everybody Loves Lucy, -A Streetcar Named Desire, -The King and I Broadway Triumph, -Inaugural Pan American Games, -Plus fashion trends, sports, cinema and film, TV, music, famous births and much, much more.