Posted on 04/27/2024 10:38:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Check out the YouTube circa 1956.
I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls, Rock n' roll, a post-War boom?
Seems like another world... One you kind of hanker for.
Can any Freepers recall the era depicted?
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That. Sounds like a hard life. City, townies, and suburbanites had no idea what it took for families like yours to put food on our tables. Thanks for your and your family’s for all the labors to do that.
Counting flowers on the wall.
“No shopping on Sundays” — yes, the “Blue Laws.” Sunday was a day for family togetherness. It was a minor inconvenience with huge societal benefits.
When jobs were abundant and paid well, mom could stay home with the kids.
When gargantuan government began growing, it required two paychecks to have the same comforts of life. The loss of the one-income family and the rise of “child care” has been devastating.
That is true, but actually so were the American ordinary "whites." At that time the miscegnation restraints were still in effect and accepted, keeping thingsas our Vreator originally intended for human happiness. The browning of the races of people originating in the European sector was only beginning, and it continuance has only made things worse.
Never forget that thew institutes of higher education were very active in the liberal social area, planting the seeds of the destruction of the society that was founded on godly biblical protestant theism but tolerating philosophies opposed to it, but hoping that the strength of individual freedoms could extinguish those influences.
Unfortunately, that has not happened, and the liberal theologies of the major denominations have been a major part of the causes of degradation. "Wokeism" is an integral component of the "social gospel" begun in Western theology ny Brooke Foss Westcott, the Anglican Bishop of Durham, that has pervaded all denominational missionary work..
The development of the American society has always been fluid, and the 1950 era was only a passing phase of it. Like the western frontier with its cowboys and Indians, and the post-WWI flappers and Charleston and Prohibition, the pre-Beatles age is gone, some of it yearned but never to return.
All of these passing times have had somber parts that were very much unwanted; never forget that.
The only solution for the ongoing problems is the Second Coming of its Creator and Savior to overcome the god of this world and the inborn sinfulness of its occupants, and to institute His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace.
The debilitating programs of communism or Mohammedanism or mobocracy cannot ever make things "better," only more deadly and hopeless for the human soul.
Born 1950. Good times, good memories, good thread.
I was born in 1962. It was the last year of the original baby boom things were better in someways in the 1950s yes but look at how many people are surviving diseases now for example cancer it’s like night and day even compared to the 70s so many Advances have been made since then
Statler Brothers’ “Do You Remember These?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puGQsQux80k
“I don’t remember any protests or riots,”
Same here. Things changed in the early 60s. I remember the first “race riots” being shown on the nightly news starting in 1964 when I was 13. Those black and white images were of something so far away and so alien to us they might have been on Mars.
Coincidentally, I got sucker punched by a black kid that same year at a movie theatre. I was leaving the theatre on a Saturday afternoon when he grabbed my shoulder, wheeled me around, and POW, landed a hard right on my face. I dropped like a sack of potatoes.
I was born in 1947. Dad was in college on the GI Bill. Mom took care of “mom things” and they lived in the married students apartments at the University of Alabama which were converted army units.
By the early 50’s Dad had a great job and we lived in South Miami. Middle Class back then meant we didn’t have much but it was “enough.” Our TV had a screen less than 12 inches …. Black and white, but my brother and I watched Winky Dink show on Saturday mornings where we stuck a plastic sheet to the screen and used special crayons to draw and color in to help Winky Dink’s adventure. We all went to church on Sunday and afterwards lunch at the corner drug store’s Soda Shop with family friends where we kids all had our first hamburgers. Life was great for us kids….. family picnic trips to the beach, playing Roy Roger’s and Dale Evans in the back yard, riding our bikes, ballet lessons, Brownie Scout meetings (Mom was our leader), cardboard paper dolls we cut out and dressed in paper clothes, my baby doll that Mom and Memaw sewed the clothes for, my brothers Davy Crockett stuff, he let me wear the coon skin cap sometimes.
We kids spent summers at Memaw and Popaw’s farm back in Alabama, because Mom didn’t want us in public swimming pools in Florida due to Polio (pre-vaccine). There with my cousin we made mud pies in the “play house” (the little shed where they raised the baby chicks in the spring), cooling off in the creek, making flower chains for our hair in the clover field, singing Zippity Doo Da in the front porch swing.
By 1960 we had our first house that was not a rental. It cost $12,000 and had 2 bathrooms (WOW) one with a tiny shower, first one I had ever seen. School was free of protests and controversial stuff …. Teacher read a verse from the Bible every morning right after we pledged allegiance while boys from the scout troop raised the outdoor flag. On Saturday I helped Mom run the little concession stand at the Baseball field while my brother pitched for his team. In high school we didn’t drink, no one got pregnant, but we still managed to have a great time. Friday night dates with my boyfriend at the coffee-house (called the Flick) where we listened to folk songs, watched the chords they played, and spent Saturday trying them out on our own guitars. I saw the Beatles and The Beach Boys live concerts.
At college back in Alabama in 1965, girls wore only dresses/skirts til 1970. we tolerated the cold in winters in our mini skirts while everyone walked to classes. Dorms and sorority houses didn’t allow men upstairs. At football games we girls wore dressy suits and heels and gloves, sometimes even fancy hats. At parties at the Frat houses we danced to music everything from MoTown to BeachBoys.
“There were kids with braces on their legs from polio”
I never saw one, but I remember the great fear of polio. We got the first Salk vaccine on sugar cubes. Mom would not let us swim in any public pools.
Instead of plastic:
- Glass jars of many sizes
- Wax paper
- other stuff
Variety of wooden crates for shipping, instead of boxes. Actual peanut shells, and shredded farm crop waste, and sometimes “popped corn,” for package stuffing.
Repair shops dedicated to many items and products.
Shoe stores sold shoes that actually fit.
A helicopter doing anything, was an attraction.
Steam shovels used cables instead of hydraulics.
America made a lot of steel and machine tools.
There were many captains of industry.
And homelessness, illegal immigration, abortion, and dope were not big businesses like they are today. They are so big today that you cannot eradicate the businesses because those businesses only exist to grow and
perpetuate those pathologies, not cure them.
The Fonz wasn’t on a jet ski. Just plain old water skis...behind a boat.
A sliiight change from Little Richard's...sportier...lyrics.
Good description; tx.
I was born in 52 - missed a lot of this but it was a simpler and nicer world
OMG! They knew about sex in the 50s?
If that’s all you can comment about, you needn’t comment.
I grew up & graduated from HS in the 50s. Looking back, it seemed like about the best of times to be growing up.
I grew up & graduated from HS in the 50s. Looking back, it seemed like about the best of times to be growing up.
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