Flashback to 1951 - A Time Traveler’s Guide: Perfect birthday or wedding anniversary gift for anyone born or married in 1951. For friends, parents or ... 1951. (A Time-Traveler’s Guide - Flashback)

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Let’s FLASHBACK to 1951, 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 1951.
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 1951 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 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…. (cont.)
Now just imagine you flashed back to a town in 1951 England.
Unlike boom-time America, a very different, more restrained lifestyle 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 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 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:
1951 American Family Life,
Austerity in the United Kingdom,
Our Love Affair with Cars,
The Golden Age of Television,
Korean War Intensifies,
Nuclear Testing in Nevada,
The Red Scare and the Rosenbergs,
Churchill Returns to Power,
Chinese Rule Over Tibet,
Apartheid Laws in South Africa,
Everybody Loves Lucy,
A Streetcar Named Desire,
The King and I Broadway Triumph,
Inaugural Pan American Games,
An Artificial Heart Machine,
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 1951,
Census Statistics and
Costs of Goods.
The Time-Traveler’s 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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Review
*** Great book to reminisce over for hours of fun. ***
Bought this for my boyfriend's 60th birthday. He absolutely loved reminiscing over what the prices were of things and of special occurrences in 1960. We spent hours together reading it.
NANCY E SHADRACH ; Flashback to 1960 - A Time Traveler's Guide (first edition) ; Paperback ; Amazon Verified Purchase December 15, 2020.
*** Memories! ***
Gave this to my husband for his 50thbirthday and he loved it. It was fascinating to read about hippie life in the70s and all the news articles which were not boring at all. The advertisement pages were great- cheeky and sexist, but that's how they were back then. I'll definitely buy the next year's book for my friends who will be having their "big" birthday.
WEILING LIU ; Flashback to 1970 -A Time Traveler's Guide (first edition) ; Paperback ; Etsy Reviewer September,2020.
*** A great read. Couldn't put it down. ***
I bought this book to add to a gift basket I am putting together for my grandparents 70th wedding anniversary. I am pretty sure they will love it. I read it myself in one night. It's an easy read, very informative, with slightly larger print which is good for the elderly. The pages are not too cluttered, with black and white pictures f