I was just reading the NY Times review of George Clooney's biopic tribute to Edward Murrow, "Good Night, and Good Luck," which features this evocative lead: "Shot in a black-and-white palette of cigarette smoke, hair tonic, dark suits and pale button-down shirts, 'Good Night, and Good Luck' plunges into a half-forgotten world in which television was new, the cold war was at its peak, and the Surgeon General's report on the dangers of tobacco was still a decade in the future." <http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/movies/23luck.html?8dpc>
Based on the accompanying photo (link below), I'd say Murrow's world is a lot more than "half-forgotten." If you look carefully at the photo -- hell, if you just glance at it -- you'll note that the foreground desk in this supposedly 1950s newsroom displays an unmistakably 21st century bottle of water. <http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/09/23/arts/23luck.1.ready.html>
I remember the fifties well. Nobody drank water then.
Carl