I figured there had to be some sites that have these
things listed.  When you're old enough to have played
with the toys first time around, remembering gets a
little harder (damned candles anyway).

Hey, we forgot the View Master and Lionel trains!  How
about stuffed animals like Smokey the Bear, puppets
like Lamb Chop, or Madame Alexander dolls?  Where are
Bozo, Burl Ives, Captain Kangaroo, Woody Woodpecker,
and Felix the Cat clocks?  And your Christmas stocking
might have marbles, or jacks, or jump ropes, or Silly
Putty, or candy cigarettes, or wax filled bottles, or
toilet water.  If you were a teenager or young adult,
you might be a Beatnik with bongos.

Books?  How about Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Dick and
Jane, the Bobsey Twins?

Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in the late 50s.
Hawaii especially had a great mystique at the time.

http://www.neatstuff.net/space-robots/Space-robots.html

http://www.toyraygun.com/japanese.html

http://www.theoldtimes.com/past/399_1.html


(Oh, gosh, I had several of these next ones)
http://www.peeblesoriginals.com/vintage/crystal-radio-sets.html


http://shop.store.yahoo.com/mbaciu/tintoy.html

You may be able to glean ideas from Filreis' reading
list:

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html






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