Our school had a huge 50's themed celebration for our "50th" birthday as a school. Check out the website at www.stumpsparty.com for some amazing decorations for this theme (or just "borrow" their ideas and make your own). We also worked a deal with Red Robin Restaurant. They catered burgers, fries and malts for our "dance". It was a fun year - actually all of our events throughout the year had this theme.

A peach / looks good / with lots of fuzz / but man's no peach / and never was / Burma-Shave
Does your husband / misbehave / grunt and grumble / rant and rave? / shoot the brute some / Burma-Shave
Don't take a curve / at 60 per / we hate to lose / a customer / Burma-Shave
Every shaver / now can snore / six more minutes / than before / by using / Burma-Shave
He played / a sax / had no B.O. / but his whiskers scratched / so she let him go / Burma-Shave
Henry the Eighth / sure had trouble / short-term wives / long-term stubble / Burma-Shave
Grandpa's beard / was stiff and coarse / and that's what / caused his / fifth divorce / Burma-Shave
Missin' / kissin'? / Perhaps your thrush / can't get through / the underbrush — try / Burma-Shave
A chin / where barbed wire / bristles stand / is bound to be / a no ma'ams land / Burma-Shave
Within this vale / of toil and sin / your head grows bald / but not your chin / Burma-Shave
Dinah doesn't / treat him right / but if he'd / shave / dyna-mite! / Burma-Shave
To change that / shaving job / to joy / you gotta use / the real McCoy / Burma-Shave
Don't lose / your head / to gain a minute / you need your head / your brains are in it / Burma-Shave
The bearded Devil / is forced / to dwell / in the only place / where they don't sell / Burma-Shave
In Cupid's little / bag of trix / here's the one / that clix / with chix / Burma-Shave
A shave / that's real / no cuts to heal / a soothing / velvet after-feel / Burma-Shave
Riot at / drug store / calling all cars / 100 customers / 99 jars / Burma-Shave
The wolf / is shaved / so neat and trim / Red Riding Hood / is chasing him / Burma-Shave
This cooling shave / will never fail / to stamp / its user / first-class male / Burma-Shave
The monkey took / one look at Jim / and threw the peanuts / back at him / he needed / Burma-Shave
If you don't know / whose signs these are / You haven't driven / very far (no final "Burma-Shave" sign)

Are your whiskers
When you wake
Tougher than
A two-bit steak?
Try

Burma Shave

Drinking drivers
Enhance their
Chance
To highball home
In an ambulance

Burma Shave

Early to bed
Early to rise
Was meant for those
Old fashioned guys
Who don't use

Burma Shave

Way back in 1925 young Allan Odell pitched this great sales idea to his father, Clinton. Use small, wooden roadside signs to pitch their product, Burma-Shave, a brushless shaving cream. Dad wasn't wild about the idea but eventually gave Allan $200 to give it a try.

Didn't take long for sales to soar. Soon Allan and his brother Leonard were putting up signs all over the dang place. At first the signs were pure sales pitch but as the years passed they found their sense of humor extending to safety tips and pure fun. And some good old-fashioned down home wisdom.

At their height of popularity there were 7,000 Burma-Shave signs stretching across America. The familiar white on red signs, grouped by four, fives and sixes, were as much a part of a family trip as irritating your kid brother in the back seat of the car. You'd read first one, then another, anticpating the punch line on number five and the familiar Burma-Shave on the sixth.

The signs cheered us during the Depression and the dark days of World War II. But things began to change in the late Fifties. Cars got faster and superhighways got built to accomodate them. The fun little signs were being replaced by huge, unsightly billboards.

1963 was the last year for new Burma Shave signs. No more red and white nuggets of roadside wisdom to ease the journey.

50's theme

Sockhop

Do a search on this site. Last year there was someone that had some wonderful ideas for the theme you want. Not to mention a lot of other themed ideas.

Oooo, a 50's theme sounds fun! Here are my ideas:

Hula Hoop Contest
Read (Rock) Around the Clock
Pink, Turquiose and White Decorations
Burma Shave type signs for PTO (Shawn? dlf? I need your help with this one!!!)