All the crud dumped on the United States from world War II started permeating into the culture.
Example?
Just seemed a simpler more innocent life.
The biggest difference was the schools. In the early 50’s no one had locks on their lockers. Imagine all that implies... Our teachers were the same women that in today’s world would run companies. Teachers were smart and capable and were there because they were locked out of better jobs.
They taught the values that allowed us to live in a world without locks on our lockers.
The biggest problem with students in the 50’s was kids chewing gum in class. Which we all at one time or anther tried to get away with...
Most adults had stories about a teacher who changed their life - and I don’t mean the type of stories we have today about ‘teachers’ who push sexual mutilation and pornography for elementary school kids. And because we hadn’t gone through liberal culture scams yet - (like “kidnapped” kids pictures on milk cartons) Kids played outside. The milk carton lie was based on things like ‘a divorced man being more than 10 minutes late returning his own kids to their mother counted as ‘kidnapped’ for lying statistics) With the 70’s came the ‘nonprofits faking their numbers to get money to keep money flowing to keep their doors open. And the ‘kidnapped kids’ lie was right in there with that time period.
And yeah in the 50’s we had dances and parties and more socializing. But part of that was because there were ZERO computer games, ZERO computers, no cell phones, no air conditioning , very few TV’s in the early 50’s and movies cost a dime to see... So kids went to movies on Saturday mornings. And most of us walked to the movie theater because families only had one car and we were used to walking to places. It was a different time.