Natasha+1950s

﻿ The 1950's
====Welcome to my page about the 1950's. Here you will learn about 1950's fashion and school. You will also learn about doctors in the 1950's. At the end, I will give you some extra information about the 1950's.====

__FASHION __
====Most people had hair above their shoulders. Women wore skirts below the knee, stockings, a blouse, and a necklace. Girls wore jeans at home, while they played. But they wore dresses to school and to other places in public. Boys wore long pants called knickers with a shirt.====

__SCHOOL __ Most people walked to school in the 1950's. But some rode a bus. School was eight hours long, but kids got two hours of recess.They got weekends. On Saturday, they listened to the radio and on Sunday, they went to church. If you were bad in school, the teacher would send you to the principal's office. There, he would give you a lecture and spank you with a wooden paddle. There were eleven grades of school. There was no kindergarten in the 1950's.



__Doctors __ __ ﻿ __ Hospitals were the same as today in the 1950's. If a woman was having a baby, she could stay at the hostital for two days. Jonas Salk created a vaccine to prevent polio in the 1950's.There were shots in the 1950's. There were vaccines for polio, smallpox, tetanus, Diphtheria, and pertussis by the mid 1950's. There were nurses in the 1950's. They fed and clothed people who were too sick to do it themselves. They also gave shots to people.



Now you know all about the 1950's. I hope you learned something! Here is your extra info. __ Extra Info __ Arthur K. Melin aka Spud invented atoy called a hula hoop in the 1950's. The Korean war was happening in the begining of the 1950's. The total population in the 1950's was 121,684,000 people. The cost of one loaf of bread in the 1950's was only fourteen cents!