What icons originated in the US?

Answer 1

A HUGE number of iconic people, images, brands and objects have originated from the United States. I couldn't begin to list them ALL, but here are some: George Washington Abraham Lincoln John F. kennedy Richard Nixon Elvis Presley Marilyn Monroe Humphrey Bogart Oliver Hardy (though NOT Stan Laurel- he came from the North of England) Harold Lloyd Buster Keaton W. C. Fields John Wayne Martin Luther King Muhammed Ali Fats Dominoe Little Richard James Dean Edgar Allen Poe Joe DiMaggio (though he's little known outside of the US) The Beach Boys The Andrews Sisters Michael Jackson Madonna Marlon Brando Jim Morrison Hot Dogs Popcorn the RockOla jukebox The Fender Stratocaster electric guitar Coca-Cola The White House The Stars & Stripes flag The Empire State Building The Golden Gate Bridge Harley Davidson motorcycles Hells Angels (though not motorcycle gangs in general) Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Disney characters The Mount Rushmore carvings The Sherman tank American footballer's costume (though the game itself is actually a variation of the game of rugby, which first appeared in England) The Woodstock rock festival The Saturn V rocket and images of the lunar landings The paintings of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol 'Appalachian Spring' by Aaron Copeland Innumerable famous movies The Hollywood sign The electric chair The Model-T Ford Hallowe'en pumpkins (though pumpkins themselves originally hail from Europe, and were brought over by The Pilgrim Fathers) The B-29 Superfortress The B-52 bomber 'A Catcher In The Rye' by J.D.Salinger 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald Country & Western music The dollar sign and dollar bill Wall St. Broadway Jazz music and many famous jazz musicians The baseball cap Levi's jeans Windows computer software Betty Boop Kodak films and cameras Nylon stockings Blondie & Dagwood ....I could go on and on!! I've deliberately NOT included the following: The Statue of Liberty (she was originally built in France, and was shipped over in pieces as a gift to the USA) Cowboys (although they have become most famously associated with the US, cowboys also existed in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina and other countries, and were'nt American specifically) Baseball (this originated in England as a game called 'Rounders') Hamburgers, bagels or pizzas (all of these originated in Europe) Audrey Hepburn (she was Anglo-Belgian, not American) 1950s car design of tailfins and chrome (although this was most prominent in the US, the original design teams who came up with this styling contained a lot of British designers, and a number of non-American makes such as Vauxhall, Simca, Mercedez and the USSR's GAZ also built cars like this) The Internet (developed originally in England) American geographical features (these had already existed for millions of years before the US came into being)North American Indians (Indians had been living in North America for Centuries before the USA was created, and are also as much a part of Canadian society and culture as they are American).Since I last answered this, I've thought of a few more- they are: Checker taxis of New York (sadly no longer used- I bet loads of New Yorkers miss them!!) Tiffany jewellery & decor Robert Frost Shaker furniture and needlework John Deere tractors Paul Robeson Stephen King 'Flyer' children's pull-along carts The New York subway Kurt Kobain Malcolm X James Baldwin Aretha Franklin Bubblegum (though not CHEWING gum- this was devised by the French) The Huey and Chinook helicopters Carson McCullers The photographer Ansel Adams ....I'll update again if I come up with more!!