20th Century Museum

Welcome to my online museum. Here on my web site you will see what life was like in the 20th century. You will see there fashion and what the youth(teenagers) were like,you will also see what entertainment and sports were like.

Entertainment

Life at turn of the Century

1. Bike clubs
2. Piano, music,story telling
3. church
4. sports(pro- beginnings)
5. Phonograph
6. Silent Movie

Youth(Teenagers)

1950's teen trends                               1950's Teen Talk

-Going steady                                       -Cat-Cool male teenager
 -Rock & roll music                              -Hunk-An attractive male
 -getting pinned                                     -Parking-Going with a date in a car to a romantic spot
-Cruising the boulevard                        -Square-Old-fashioned, dull, and boring
-Hanging out at the malt shop               -Shades-Shades
-wearing your boyfriend's class ring      -Its's a Gas-This is exciting
-Having a crush on the                         -Hardee, Har,Har-That's not very funny
 latest teen idol like James Dean!          -Goofing off-Acting silly/lazy
-sock-hops                                          -Dullsville-A boring place
-Good Humor man                               -Button up-Keep quiet

Fashion for teenagers 

The 1950s were totally different from any other time before it. The 50’s brought teenagers to Elvis Presley, burger joints, sock hops, and muscle cars. Being a teenager was fun again and their fashion trends proved it.

The popular look for teen boys in the 50’s was actually the clean cut look. More boys actually dressed like Richie.The style was tight jeans, blazers and jackets with short hair, and clean shaven. Cardigan sweaters were extremely popular, especially if you were the athletic type. Many teenage boys did dress in the greaser style, like John Travolta in the movie Grease, because this was after all the rock and roll era. The style for this group was tight tee shirts, jeans, and a leather jacket.

Girl’s styles were dresses that hung below the knees and sleeves being the style. Poodle skirts, jumpers, and cardigan sweaters were also seen quite often. Rolled up jeans were also worn but never in school. They were considered to be casual wear only. Scarves were considered fashionable and hair was usually long but pulled back in a ponytail more often than not as evidenced by Sandy in Grease.

Fashion

This is a picture of the women's fashion  in the 20th century. Women were not aloud to wear pants if they were seen wearing pants their was a fine!

 In my Museum you will see what hippies were like in the 1960's people of all ages , including children they wore tye dye and flowers and bright colours. Hippies also experimented with drugs.

                   

Sports

20th Century Sports

Sports of 1920

- National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home runs, signalling the arrival of the lively ball era in baseball. Also boxing.

 

Sports of 1926 -Wmens first year in the olympics,
also Jack Dempsey loses his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English channel.

                   

Gift Shop

Welcome to my Gift Shop here you can buy things that are related to the 20th century. Thank you for visiting my online Museum and hope you enjoyed.


Street Car                                                                                                 War airplane

       












Tie dye clothes                                                                                                 Rubik's Cube


                                                    






    Swatch 

• With the war air plane children or adults can put it together and design it/paint it. its a good activity for children to do.
• The Rubik's cube is a challenging game for children and adults! Good luck 
• The Swatch is a fashionable, cheap watch that even celebrity's wear. You can get ever colour for under $20, you can also match them with your clothes.                                                                                               

                                 

Childrens March break program

On March break at our Museum we will be holding a march break camp program. At this camp your children will learn about what the 20th century was like, they will be doing activities like:

• Building War airplanes out of wood. Plus painting them.
• watching Silent movies 
• Seeing real weapons like Machine Gun, Grenade and Flame thrower from the WW1 , they will get to use the machine gun with a trained professional and shoot a target.
•  They will do a skit with old clothes and they will have to use the teen slang from the 1950's.
• They will get to dress up like hippies.
• The Children will also get to tie dye because that's what they wore in the 20th century.
• They will get to have a Rubik's Cube competition. That's the game the played in the 1980's

Come out and enjoy.

for more info or to register please contact 519-555-555