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"The Modern Consumer: Products and Style" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/A9goh7obtY #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 13, 2019.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, Humpty Dumpty was used to sell potato chips??? In the 1950s, as supermarkets replaced neighborhood grocery stores, product packaging was redesigned to stand out and sell items like these potato chips. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 13, 2019.

"The Modern Consumer: Products and Style" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/A9goh7obtY #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 07, 2019.

Robert the #Robot was the first plastic toy robot manufactured in the United States. A small, windup record player hidden inside the toy enabled Robert to repeat the phrase, “I am Robert the Robot, the mechanical man, drive me, steer me.” #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 07, 2019.

The 1950s were the golden age of #space-themed toys. #Robots are the most iconic, space-themed toys. Japanese manufacturers pioneered the robot toy craze in the late 1940s with Atomic Robot Man, a wind-up, tin lithograph toy that walked on its own. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 07, 2019.

"The Modern Consumer: Products and Style" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/A9goh76A5o #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 01, 2019.

In the 1950s, most radio arrangements included a multi-channel pre-amplifier with volume and tone controls; a high power, low-distortion amplifier; a dynamically balanced, constant-speed turntable; and a Superheterodyne AM-FM tuner. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on February 01, 2019.

"The Modern Consumer: Products and Style" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/A9goh7obtY #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on January 23, 2019.

Advertised as the “Picture-in-a-Minute” camera, this revolutionary device combined film exposure and processing into one unit. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on January 23, 2019.

While on vacation in 1944, Edwin Land took a picture of his three-year-old daughter, who promptly asked to see the photo. This technology did not yet exist, until Land introduced the Polaroid Model 95 in 1948. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on January 23, 2019.

"The Modern Consumer: Products and Style" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/A9goh7obtY #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on January 15, 2019.

In the 1950s, hula hoops, jump ropes, plastic purses, chewing-gum wrapper chains, and other fads abounded. Did you own any #1950sConsumer children's products? This tweet was posted on January 15, 2019.