While this is primarily about music what about other aspects of american life in the 1950s and before and their inflenece on life in the fallout dimension. The Margarine Act for example in 1950 got rid of restrictive antimargarine laws in most of the country. susch as restriction on colouring the Margarine. some states kept their restriction for years after though. "In California, for example, public eating places wishing to serve margarine had to post a special notice to this effect, could not serve yellow margarine unless the patron "required" it, and in any case had to pay a yearly $2 licensing fee to do this" this still in 1970. "In 1944 uncolored margarine came to be packaged in the Peters* bag, which considerably expedited the job of coloring the product. Countless people experienced the bizarre American ritual of popping the tiny plastic capsule of oil-soluble orange food color inside the sturdy plastic bag, kneading the bag for about 5 minutes to work the color into the white milk-and-fat emulsion, then clipping a corner off the bag and squeezing out the yellow margarine. Most of these people probably became opponents of the antimargarine laws. " apparently its still illegal today in canada to sell yellow margarine. this sort of thing could still have applied to the 1950s of fallout earth with the Dairy lobbists not giving in to the views of citizens to lift the restrictions. Anyone else know of similiar stuff from that time. ------------- * Leo Peters, originator of the “Pak” margarine package, made out of plastic and containing a capsule for coloring. he began collecting royalties estimated at $1,000,000 a year, mostly during the period of the restrictions.