1950s nostalgia is nostalgia for certain aspects of the 1950s. 1950s nostalgia is a form of decade nostalgia. 1950s retro is retro related to the 1950s.
Music There has been nostalgia for the 1950s music of Ray Charles.BBC releases list of the most-streamed songs from 70 years of the Official Singles Chart. WalesOnline. 4 November 2022.George Griffiths. Official Charts and BBC Radio 1 and 2 team up to reveal the UK's Official most-streamed songs of the past 70 years. Official Charts. 3 November 2022.
Food There have been 1950s retro diners.Explore hidden gems along Route 66, from ghost towns to drive-in theaters and '50s diners. Desert magazine. The Desert Sun. 20 June 2019.Ultimate Food Journeys. Dorling Kindersley. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4053-5866-8. p 275.
Australia The Delinquents (1989) is a retro film about the 1950s.Stephen O'Neill and Maria Pramaggiore (eds). Kylie Minogue: Critical Insights into Pop Music and Media Celebrity. 2025. p 63.Clary Saddler. Kylie Minogue: Album by Album: Stick or Twist. 2024. pp 34 to 37.
Germany 1950s retro fashion was produced in 1980s West Germany.Paul Betts. "Remembrance of Things Past: Nostalgia in West and East Germany, 1980-2000". Paul Betts and Greg Eghigian (eds). Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History. 2003. pp 183 and the rest of pp 182 to 185. See also Becker, Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia, pp 122 & 123.
Hong Kong There are nostalgia films about the 1950s."Rewriting History: Hong Kong Nostalgia Cinema and Its Social Practice". Poshek Fu and David Desser (eds). The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. 2000. p 257.
Japan
In Japan, 1950s nostalgia is part of the broader phenomenon of "Shōwa nostalgia" and "Shōwa retro"."Shōwa" is the Japanese era name of the Shōwa era that began in 1926 and ended in 1989. 1950s nostalgia overlaps with the "Shōwa 30s boom" of nostalgia for aspects of the Shōwa 30s (1955 to 1964).Kumiko Aoki. 変わりゆく「昭和30年代ブーム」 : キッチュからイデオロギーへ (2011) 32 社会学論考 83. CiNii.Katsuyuki Hidaka. Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-67222-2 (hardback). ebook: p PA2007. There are 1950s retro shōtengai (shopping streets).Ryota Kato. Tokyo: Retro Shopping Street Offers Taste of 1950s Japan. The Japan News. 5 July 2023.Tamatha Roman. Odaiba Old Timey. Metropolis Japan. 21 August 2016. Showa no Machi is a retro town covering the 1950s.5 Things We Learned About Kunisaki and Bungotakada Cities at TW’s Feel Japan Event. Tokyo Weekender. 26 November 2021. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) is a retro film set in an alternate version of the 1950s.Kiki's Delivery Service: Japanese classic returns in time for Christmas. The Guardian. 28 November 2016.Kiki’s Delivery Service. Cornell Cinema. Cornell University. Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005) is a nostalgia film about the 1950s.Japan Close Up. vol 12. January 2007. p 6. Other nostalgia films include My Neighbor Totoro (1988),Susan L Napier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away" (2006) 32 The Journal of Japanese Studies 287 (No 2: Summer 2006) the 2006 film adaptation of Saga No Gabai-baachan,Hidaka. Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Ebook p PT160.女性情報. 月刋女性情報. vol 5. January 2007. Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007)Always Zoku 3-chome no Yuhi. The Japan Times. 2 November 2007. and Mai Mai Miracle (2009).Edward Gamlin. Mai Mai Miracle. Otaku USA. 28 December 2009.Ronnie Scheib. Mai Mai Miracle. Variety. 25 March 2010. There are 1950s nostalgia television programmes such as The Waste Land (2009) and Kanryo-tachi No Natsu (2009).Mark Schilling. Japan biz set on 1950s nostalgia. Variety. 11 September 2009. There has been nostalgia for rotary telephones昭和レトロが心地よい. AERA dot. and kamado-gami masks.Japan's Showa Retro Boom: Nostalgia, Local Identity, and The Resurgence of Kamadogami Masks In the Nation's Northeast (2011) 44 The Journal of Popular Culture 1307
New Zealand There has been 1950s nostalgia chocolate.Whittaker's taps into '50s nostalgia. Supermarket News. 19 August 2016.
United Kingdom That'll Be the Day (1973) is a nostalgia film about the 1950s.Cult Movie: David Essex debut That'll Be The Day reflected 70s nostalgia for 50s. The Irish News. 10 November 2017. Absolute Beginners (1986) is a retro film about the 1950s.Janice Winship. "Back to the Future". (subtitle: "A Style for the Eighties"). New Socialist. No 40: Summer 1986. p 48. From The Labour Party. Other films include the documentary Blue Suede Shoes (1980).Cash Box. 19 January 1980. p 21.Christopher McKittrick. Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats. p 34."2 Rock-and-Rollers at Thalia". New York Times. 3 July 1981. Nostalgia television programmes about the 1950s include Hi-de-Hi! (1980)How Hi-de-Hi! embraced British nostalgia and triumphed over 1980s alternative comedy. The Telegraph. 11 December 2022. and Call the Midwife (2012).Agnes Arnold-Forster. Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion. Chapter 5.
There have been 1950s nostalgia concerts."50s rock festival a London hit". The Montreal Gazette. 7 August 1972. p 24. From Associated Press."People in the News". Gettysburg Times. 9 September 1982. p 17. From Associated Press. The London Rock and Roll Show (1973) is a 1950s nostalgia concert film.Tobias Becker. "The 1950s Revival of the 1970s". Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia. 2023. p 121 at pp 124 & 125. Three different cover versions of the 1955 song "Unchained Melody" respectively reached number 1 on the UK singles chart in 1990, 1995 and 2002.Righteous Brothers; Robson & Jerome; Gareth Gates. In 1999, the Cartoons 1998 cover version of the 1958 song "Witch Doctor" reached number 2 on that chart.Witch Doctor. Official Charts. In 2005, Elvis Presley's "One Night" (1958) reached number 1 on that chart.One Night/I Got Stung. Official Charts. 1950s retro bands have included DartsRobert Shelton. "New Albums in Review". Radio & Record News. 12 October 1979. p 21. (Needletime Music Ltd. Beak Street, London.) and Showaddywaddy.Andy Bennett. British Progressive Pop 1970-1980. 2020. p 103.Dave McAleer. Chart Beats. ISBN 0-85112-964-1. Guinness Publishing. p 95.
Revivals have included Teddy Boys.E Ellis Cashmore. No Future: Youth and Society. Heinemann Educational Books Limited. London. 1984. ISBN 0-435-82164-4. pp 36 & 37.Dick Hebdige. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. 1979. 2003. pp 81 & 82. There have been 1950s nostalgia events.Birmingham's Diamond Jubilee celebrations go back to the 1950s. BirminghamLive. 28 March 2012."Fifties nostalgia proves fabulous for museum". 22 August 2003. Harrogate Advertiser. p 7.
United States There has been nostalgia for James Dean;Dwyer. "Star Legacies: James Dean and Sandra Dee in the Re-Generation". Back to the Fifties. Chapter 5. pp 147 to 178. carhops;The latest US food trend is 1950s nostalgia with the return of carhops. CNN travel. 6 August 2020. charm bracelets;Robert Janjigian. "Interest in charms evokes 1950s nostalgia". Times Daily. 20 May 2004. p 6D. From Cox News Service. and for 1950s television programmes such as Leave It to Beaver,Jerry Buck. "Gee Wiz: The Beaver is Back". Lawrence Journal-World. 16 November 1982. p 28. I Love LucyLee Margulies. "Resurrection Of Old TV Programs Results From Public Nostalgia Kick". The Robesonian. 8 February 1976. p 8B. From Associated Press. and Father Knows Best.Mary R Desjardins. Father Knows Best. Wayne State University Press. 2015. p 91. 1950s fashions have been revivedEva Schacherl. "Fashions of the 1950s make comeback". The Star-Phoenix. 13 July 1978. p 23.Julie Hatfield. "Menswear goes macho for upcoming season: 50s nostalgia feeling strong at style show". The Day. 6 March 1985. p 13. From the Boston Globe. such as the poodle skirt.Margaria Fichtner. "Popularity of 50s Fashions Brings Back The Poodle Skirt". The Blade: Toledo, Ohio. 3 September 1978. Section C. p 3. From Knight News Service. In 2013, people wanted to time travel to the 1950s more than any other decade.We still like Ike. The Economist. 20 August 2013.Poll: What decade would you most like to time-travel back to?. CBS News. 20 August 2013.1950s most popular destination for would-be time travelers. YouGov. 13 August 2013.
There have been 1950s nostalgia concertsTerry Pace. "Coasters, Checker Revive Spirit". Times Daily 30 August 1985. p 5B. such as 1950's Rock & Roll Revival.Jan Hodenfield. "Rock and Roll Revival". Ben Fong-Torres (ed). The Rolling Stone Rock 'N Roll Reader. Bantam Books. 1974. pp 426 & 427. [Dated 29 November 1969]. 1950s nostalgia concerts have included musicians such as Little Richard, The Platters and Chuck Berry. Let the Good Times Roll (1973) is a 1950s nostalgia concert film.Martha DuBose. "Re-cycling a culture into effluent". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 September 1973. p 7. Grease (1971) is a nostalgia musical about the 1950s.Nancy Hendricks. "Nostalgia". Popular Fads and Crazes through American History. ABC-CLIO. 2018. vol 2. p 461. Grease (1978) is a 1950s nostalgia musical film.Ralph G Giordano. Social Dancing in America: A History and Reference. Greenwood Press. 2007. Volume 2 (Lindy Hop to Hip Hop, 1901-2000). p 248. The song "Bad to the Bone" (1982) is based on "Mannish Boy" (1955).Jim Beviglia. Playing Back the 80s: A Decade of Unstoppable Hits. p 81. 1950s retro bands have included Sha Na Na.John Culhane, "Nostalgia". Newsweek. vol 76. 28 December 1970. p 34 at p 38.