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What was the 50's really like ? ( Vanity )
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Posted on 06/05/2005 6:37:36 AM PDT by sushiman

I would like to hear from folks who were adults during the 1950's ( I was born in 1952 ) about what it was really like back in those days . In nostalgiac moods I often wish I would go back , as an adult , and see for myself if it was a wonderful as I remember it with romantic , childhood visions ...I know this is a very broad topic ...any memories , thoughts , etc...would be appreciated ...


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1 posted on 06/05/2005 6:37:37 AM PDT by sushiman
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All this talk of Elvis on Milton Berle put me in a nostalgiac mood ...


2 posted on 06/05/2005 6:38:58 AM PDT by sushiman
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A reminder is coming.


3 posted on 06/05/2005 6:39:05 AM PDT by Ramonan (Honor does not go out of style.)
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Many Many Many men were alcoholics. Only, people didn't know it was a problem.

Okay, I'm 18 I know but I talk to my parents ALRIGHT.


4 posted on 06/05/2005 6:39:42 AM PDT by LauraleeBraswell (I will never again read another thing by Christopher Hitchens !)
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I remember that air conditioning only existed in supermarkets and movie theatres.


5 posted on 06/05/2005 6:41:24 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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Yeah it was great... unless you were a Red Chinaman or a Damn Ruskie Commonist.


6 posted on 06/05/2005 6:41:32 AM PDT by DainBramage
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Nobody had sex.

Well, not in public, anyway.

7 posted on 06/05/2005 6:42:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

My Dad was one as well ...

Of course we had the Cold War ...Air Raid drills ...Heavy duty racism ...Conformity ...


8 posted on 06/05/2005 6:43:11 AM PDT by sushiman
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Guitar players weren't near as good then....


9 posted on 06/05/2005 6:44:41 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Wasn't just the men.

The women just hid it better.


10 posted on 06/05/2005 6:45:11 AM PDT by tiamat ("I live in my own little world. But it's okay. They know me here.")
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Well, I remember being in grade school and having drills where we all marched into the hallways and sat with our eyes covered and backs against the wall. This was for when the Russians would come and drop bombs on us.

It wasn't all Ward and June Cleaver.

11 posted on 06/05/2005 6:47:16 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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For one it was a time when the people in our neighborhood did not lock their doors when leaving so friends could come in and relax till you got back. The open housing law passed by congress sure changed all of that.


12 posted on 06/05/2005 6:47:32 AM PDT by Judge Roy
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Well, 22% of the nation lived below the poverty line.

The average annual salary was $2,992.

13 posted on 06/05/2005 6:48:06 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I am not a romantic, I don't hero worship and no, as a matter of fact, I don't have a heart.)
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" Many Many Many men were alcoholics "

Yes ...but now many many men are alcoholics , drug addicts , AIDS infected ...


14 posted on 06/05/2005 6:48:07 AM PDT by sushiman
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It was hot, sushiman, really really hot. No one had A/C in their houses or not even in cars so you had to ride with the windows down and carrying on a conversation in the car was hard. It was also slow because I went places on my bike or my horse.
15 posted on 06/05/2005 6:48:45 AM PDT by Ditter
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Not that many, even now, despite the media hype and the fury on FR.

It IS after all, a self-correcting problem if someone gets that messed up.


16 posted on 06/05/2005 6:49:37 AM PDT by tiamat ("I live in my own little world. But it's okay. They know me here.")
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You could be impaled by a tailfin at a drive in movie, a danger that no longer exists.


17 posted on 06/05/2005 6:49:46 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Ditter

"What was the 50's really like ?"

It was a lot like now, except everything was older. And it was all in black and white, I remember that part vividly.


18 posted on 06/05/2005 6:51:23 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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Women did a lot of cleaning; men put on a suit and tie and went to work; there was a martini waiting at home once you pulled in; breakfast consisted of a stack of pancakes, a mountain of scrambled eggs, two kinds of breakfast meats, a tall glass of whole milk, and strong coffee; dinner was a either a large steak, pork chops or meatloaf (fish on Friday); pensions were fully funded; everyone drove a Ford or GM product; houses had white picket fences; you rooted for the Yankees and laughed at the immigrants from Brooklyn; Johnny U. and Notre Dame were the football choices.

There was no sex except for reproductive purposes.

Being an engineer was the best job in the world; Sputnik happened across the nation we became math, physics and chemistry geniuses; we put together the precursors for putting a man on the moon; we entered the screw up known as Viet Nam in order to aid our "allies", the French (Dien Bien Phu); we set in motion the division of the nation that was the 60s.


19 posted on 06/05/2005 6:51:36 AM PDT by Archangelsk (Handbasket, hell. Get used to the concept.)
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You could be impaled by a tailfin at a drive in movie, a danger that no longer exists.

Many people put their eyes out with a spoon in their sundae at the soda fountain.

20 posted on 06/05/2005 6:52:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
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