an old coke bottle, an old mobster hat, those long plastic things they put on a cigarette filter to smoke, the male/female symbol like austin powers has,hey just watch austin powers theres plenty of shagadelic ideas there.

hi - if you google the phrase "1950's" on ebay, you'll come up with some great products!

Another idea is to look at old advertising in magazines in Time Magazine, Life Magazine, and National Geographic Magazine.

Console televisions. These are televisions mounted in huge, wooden cabinets that are as large as pieced of furniture. I don't mean an entertaiment center. I mean cabinets built for the express purpose of enclosing a television set.

Also consider that automobiles from that era are very distictly recognizable.