1950s nostalgia

Sentimentality for the 1950s September 2026 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. Media 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. A Pale View of Hills (2025) is partly set in the 1950s.A Pale View of Hills: the legacy of atomic bombings in Japan is explored in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel. The Conversation. 10 March 2026. Return to the Forbidden Planet (1983) is based on Forbidden Planet (1956).John Trushell. "A Postmodern (Re)Turn to Forbidden Planet". Foundation. No 69: Spring 1997. p 60 at p 65.Shakespeare and Youth Culture. pp 126 & 127. 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. Canada There has been 1950s nostalgia theatre and film.Andrea P Lebowitz. "Jackie Crossland: West Coast Woman of Theatre" in "Women in Canadian Drama" (1979) 5 Canadian Drama 83 at 86 (University of Waterloo). The play is "Rinse Cycle": Catalogue: .Marilyn Beker. "Youth looks back to the 1950's with nostalgic eagerness" in "Canada's film makers are booming". The Gazette, Montreal. 17 October 1970. p 43. The film is Peter Rowe's "The Neon Palace". The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was a 1950s nostalgia concert.Daniel Tate and Rob Bowman. The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History. p 97. 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. such as He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father (1993).Gary Bettinson (ed). Directory of World Cinema: China 2. Intellect Books. 2015. pp 97 & 98. Japan Shōwa nostalgia 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. 1950s retro bands have included the CarolMasahiko Oyhama. "Rock and Roll Dancing and Motorcycles: An Ethnography of a Motorcycle Gang in a Japanese Small Town" (2000) 5 Perfect Beat 67 at 70 (No 1: July 2000) and the Black Cats.ブラック・キャッツ結成40周年、デジタルリマスターで蘇る原宿ロカビリーレジェンド！. Re:minder. 24 November 2021. There is a Frank Nagai song concours.「魅惑の低音」フランク永井、出身地で「有楽町で逢いましょう」など歌い継ぐコンサート久々開催. Yomiuri Shimbun. 23 December 2023. 1950s nostalgia clubs have included Kento's.Beth Reiber. Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide: Japan '92-'93. Prentice Hall Travel. 1992. p 223. There has been nostalgia for rotary telephones,昭和レトロが心地よい. AERA dot. 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 rockabillymeet the japanese rockabillies keeping mid-century fantasies of americana alive. i-D. 28 March 2019.A brief history of Japanese rockabilly: Not just for your grandparents!【J-Tunes】. SoraNews24. 8 July 2014. and 1950s fashion.W David Marx. "Damn Yankees". Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style. Basic Books. 2015. 2023. Chapter 6. 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. The Darling Buds of May (1991),14(3) QRFV 32 & 33; Leggott and Taddeo (eds), Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, 2015, p 48. Bruce Carson and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones (eds), Frames and Fictions on Television: The Politics of Identity Within Drama, 2000, p 117. Head over Heels (1993),"Back with a classy act" in "TV Preview". The Times. 9 January 1993. p 18. Lipstick on Your Collar (1993),"Frolicking Fifties". Nottingham Evening Post. 20 February 1993. p 19. Born and Bred (2002)Graham Sunderland. "Bolam in older role" in "Television Topics". Hebden Bridge Times. 26 April 2002. p 4. 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 Gazette, Montreal. 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 BoysE 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. and Dan Dare.Dan Dare: How the British superhero survived to make the digital age. Independent. 12 September 2017.Modern heroes and a ravaged Earth: reboot of 1950s space comic Dan Dare has liftoff. The Guardian. 8 April 2026. There have been 1950s nostalgia cinema shows,Stephanie Billen. "We never had it so good". The Times. 23 February 1994. p 34. theatre shows,"Stars can still shine". The Times. 23 August 1993. p 25. television scheduling"Back to those good old TV times". TVTimes magazine. (Thames/LWT). 24 December 1982 to 7 January 1983. pp 39 to 42. See also "Fifties to the Fore" at p 69. and 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. There has been nostalgia for 1950s hobbies.Living in the past: lifestyles from bygone eras. The Guardian. 31 May 2020. 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. From Associated Press. 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. Nostalgia television programmes about the 1950s include Happy Days (1974)Happy Days: ’50s Nostalgia Turns 50. The Saturday Evening Post. 16 January 2024.‘Happy Days’ Got Us Unstuck in Time. The New York Times. 15 January 2024. and Laverne & Shirley (1976).Janet Staiger. Blockbuster TV: Must-see Sitcoms in the Network Era. New York University Press. 2000. p 113. M*A*S*H (1972) is a retro television programme set in the 1950s.'M*A*S*H' turns 50: How Alan Alda's wartime CBS dramedy changed TV, and set ratings record. USA Today. 15 September 2022. Quantum Leap (1989) is a retro television programme covering the 1950s.Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004. p 190. There were roughly thirty 1970s films about the 1950s.Tom Symmons. "The 1970s Nostalgia Boom". The New Hollywood Historical Film: 1967-78. p 161. Nostalgia films about the 1950s include The Last Picture Show (1971),Nicola Sayers. The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture. Routledge. 2020. Chapter 5. The Lords of Flatbush (1974),Daniel and Susan Cohen. Hollywood Hunks and Heroes. Exeter Books. 1985. p 97. Return to Macon County (1975),Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1975. Reprinted at Film Review Digest Annual 1976, p 269 (KTO Press). Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976),501 Movie Directors. (A Quintessence Book). Barrons Educational Series. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7641-6022-6. p 337. September 30, 1955 (1977),Stephen Tropiano. "Grease and the 1950s Nostalgia Craze". Grease. (Music on Film series). Limelight. 2011. Chapter 1. Diner (1982),Lauren Rosewarne. Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural. Lexington Books. 2018. p 97. Back to the Future (1985),Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (ed). The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films. McFarland. 2010. pp 50 & 51. Stand by Me (1986),Lauren Rosewarne. "Nostalgia". The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Whys of Lookalike Film and TV Productions. 2026. Cry-Baby (1990),Timothy Shary. Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema since 1980. p 111. The Man in the Moon (1991),Empire Film Guide. 2006. p 606. The Iron Giant (1999),Drew McWeeny. "The Iron Giant: Brad Bird directs the book by British poet Ted Hughes". Cinefantastique. (vol 31, no 7). August 1999. p 16 at p 17. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)James Russell and Jim Whalley. Hollywood and the Baby Boom: A Social History. 2018. Paperback. 2019. p 274. and Alien Trespass (2009).Genre From Another Planet: The ’50s. The New York Times. 27 March 2009. 1950s biopics include The Buddy Holly Story (1978),M Keith Booker. Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange. Praeger. 2007. p 62.La Bamba (1987)Dwyer. Back to the Fifties. p 147.Elsebeth Hurup. "Bridge Over Troubled Water: Nostalgia for the Fifties in Movies of the Seventies and Eighties". Dale Carter (ed). Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America. The Dolphin. No 23: Autumn 1992. (Aarhus University Press). p 56. and Great Balls of Fire! (1989).David Parkinson. The Rough Guide to Film Musicals. p 64. Retro films about the 1950s include Badlands (1973),Bohn and Stromgren. "Nostalgia Films". Light and Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures. 3rd Edition. Mayfield Publishing Company. 1987. p 333. Our Time (1974)Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1995, p 969 and Quiz Show (1994).David Wharton and Jeremy Grant. Teaching Analysis of Film Language. British Film Institute. 2005. ISBN 0-85170-981-8. p 65. The film American Graffiti (1973), which is set in 1962, includes a character, John Milner, who has 1950s nostalgia,Cracking the Ike Age, p 61. and also includes 1950s nostalgia music.Mark Halloran and Thomas A White. "Pop Soundtrack Music for Film" (1989) 7 The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, (ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries), No 2: Winter 1989, p 1 at p 2. Harrison Bergeron (1995) includes a parody of 1950s nostalgia.Emily E Auger. Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres. Intellect. 2011. pp 321 & 322. References to 1950s greasers,Alpers. Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America. p 42. and to the films The Wild One and Rebel Without a Cause, appear in later film and television.John Lewis. "The Nostalgia for Authority". The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture. 1992. 2014. pp 32 & 33.Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times. p 117. There are 1950s retro restaurantsWant some nostalgia? Try one of these nine 50s-themed diners in Louisiana. Shreveport Times. 6 June 2026. such as the 50's Prime Time Café and the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant.Walt Disney World & Orlando for Dummies. 2002. pp 127, 130 & 154. See also 1960s nostalgia 1970s nostalgia 1980s nostalgia 1990s nostalgia References Michael D Dwyer. Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties. Oxford University Press. 2015. Google. Benjamin L Alpers. Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America. Rutgers University Press. 2024. Google Christine Sprengler. "The Fifties: Nostalgia's Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain". Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film. Berghahn Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1-84545-559-0. Chapter 2. pp 39 to 66. Lisa Jo Sagolla. "Fifties Nostalgia". Rock 'n' Roll Dances of the 1950s. 2011. Chapter 5. p 99. Johnathan Rodgers. "Back to the Fifties". Newsweek. vol 80. 16 October 1972. pp 78 to 82. Harriet Van Horne. "Now it's the 1950s in nostalgia cycle". Meriden Journal. 26 October 1972. p 6. From Los Angeles Times. Nelli Norman. "Will Dick Clark Survive Nostalgia". Ocala Star-Banner. 7 December 1976. p 5B. Barbara Carpenter. "Music moves fans back to the '50s". Record-Journal. 9 August 1991. pp 21 & 26. "The Fifties Revival". Oliver Gruner and Peter Krämer (eds). Grease Is the Word: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon. 2019. p 151. "Japan's affair with Western Industrial nostalgia". The Canberra Times. 20 December 1990. p 9. From The Guardian. Charlie Robbins. "Japanese want American Nostalgia". Gainesville Sun. 3 September 1987. p 23E. Shig Fujita. "Classic R&B Product Fans Trend In Japan". Billboard. 11 October 1980. p 56. "The Nifty Fifties". Life. 16 June 1972. p 38. "Businesses continue to milk '50s nostalgia". The Tuscaloosa News 25 Jul 1993. p 7E. From Cox News Service. Where Were You in '72? 1950s Nostalgia Music Reconsidered. PopMatters. 26 August 2021. Category:Nostalgia Category:1950s