Yes, we are war babies but I have never heard of that tag being used for a whole generation. Click on the link below, the silent generation refers to those born between 1925 and 1945 so some who were born to very young parents during the war would be included along with their parents in the silent generation. I never said a hundred a week was out of reach, it was not for all but it was for the majority in this area in the fifties. Of course it bought far more here than in the Northern states at that time. A small farm with a house
could be had here for five thousand or less. On the other hand some used items such as furniture apparently were worth more here than up North. I remember one business run by an enterprising family who happened to be black, they ran a truck back and forth to New York and brought back used furniture, old books, bicycles and other odd items to sell here. We bought a number of books from them.
Incidentally you seem very eager to prove me wrong on something. This is supposed to be fun, not a contest.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-silent-generation-definition-characteristics-facts.html
I grew up knowing that I was born into the "WAR BABY" generation!
Actually, generational names was NOT really much of a "thing" until THE BABY BOOMERS came along and swamped schools, etc.! And then, in the '70s, all of a sudden, it became de rigeur to name and use the name for those born between XXXX and XXXX.
You went to work right out of high school? I don't know what the minimum wage/other salaries were, where you lived, in the 1950s; however yes, it was no doubt lower, there, than it was in the Northeast.
No, not "very eager to prove you wrong"; just interested in correcting inaccurate/wrong "facts". ;^)
What's supposed to be "fun"?
Just because you found something on line, doesn't mean that it is true, nor even reliable!
The so-called "SILENT GENERATION" nomenclature was used to imply those who were supposedly steady, responsible, and conformative. Yet even that definition gets blown out of the water when one knows factual history!
There were massive strikes, the "HIPPY LEADERS" were of that generation and they were stinking COMMIES, who told stupid kids "DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY", when almost all of them, to a man, were easily pushing 40, with some already in their 40s!
"SILENT" ?
Well yes, most people didn't protest, but it was the SILENT GENERATION, with help from other generations, who got Reagan elected president and FYI...that is the time period when the "SILENT GENERATION" name was first used/abused.