I was looking through a toy article in the Pictorial living newspaper insert for Nov 27, 1955 (like Parade):

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For little 'miss homemaker'

Since the 'little woman' has a lot to say around the house, even if only 3, like Pamela Tomlinson, Santa Claus takes heed of her Christmas list.

Toys on parade this year for young home-makers include new dolls, realistic kitchen appliances, dishes and cutlery, tiny sewing machines, hair dryers, toasters.

For the 'man of tomorrow'

For the boy who lives in an imaginative world of today and tomorrow, here are toys designed to please his love of derring-do. Equipped with this space helmet and accompanied by robot, David Fluschman can blast off in style.
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Ahh...simpler times.

Sexist as heck? You betcha!

Having Bush in office, fallout shelters under construction, high national patriotism, a renewed value of the home and hearth...make this the closest thing to 1955 we seen in quite awhile.

I'm gonna clean the ol' wide-whitewalls and chrome on my car and make sure the push-buttons are all lubricated.

Take care Dan,

SDAI-Tech1

PS
In this toy section they have some GREAT stuff....an 'ATOMIC ENERGY' set for the 'young researcher' , a functional scale model of the Palomar telescope, planetarium and those winding music boxes with one leg sticks like organ grinders used to have...whatever became of those?