Homecoming Week: Kickin' it Old School

This week is homecoming week at TUHS. The theme is decades. I will be putting pictures up from every day. Monday is 50's, Tuesday 60's, Wednesday 70's, Thursday 80's and Friday is school colors.

Monday- 50's

Interesting facts from the 50's:

1. The first credit card was introduced.

2. McDonald's corporation was founded.

3. The car seat belt was introduced.

4. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.

5. The first color television was introduced.

6. Elvis Presley gyrated on the Ed Sullivan Show.

7. Mr. Potato Head was patented.

8. Dr. Seuss published The Cat in the Hat.

9. Disneyland had it's grand opening.

10. DNA was discovered.

Tuesday- 60's

Interesting facts from the 60's:

1. Minimum wage was $1.00!

2. Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers I Have a Dream speech and is later assassinated.

3. The Flintstones becomes television's first prime time cartoon series.

4. GI Joe doll was introduced.

5. Beatlemania explodes worldwide.

6. First artificial pump successfully implanted in heart.

7. The miniskirt is introduced.

8. Apollo 8 completes flight around the moon.

9. First emergency 911 telephone system is installed in New York.

10. Polaroid introduces color film prints.

P.S. My hair was in braids with flowers all around, you can't really tell in the picture but it was the most important part of my outfit!

Wednesday- 70's

Interesting facts from the 70's:

1. The bar code was invented.

2. The first Earth Day took place.

3. First face lifts attempted.

4. Feminist movements became prominent.

5. Development of integrated circuit and laser.

6. First manned spacecraft landed on the moon.

7. Leisure suits and bell bottoms are fashionable.

8. A gallon of gas was 36 cents!

9. Allied forces pull out of Vietnam.

10. The beginning of the video game.

Thursday- 80's

Interesting facts from the 80's:

1. Cable was introduced along with MTV.

2. Sandra Day O'Connor became first woman in supreme court.

3. The invention of the Rubik's cube.

4. Challenger space craft exploded 74 seconds after lift off.

5. Computers became widely used in homes.

6. The greenhouse effect is discovered.

7. America's Most Wanted debuts.

8. Pac Man was released.

9. Post-it-notes are introduced.

10. Mobile phones were introduced.

-Rachiekinns! (: