More from the 1950s to the 1980s..
I would answer that but I need to find and “old timer”. LOL
mid-1980s to the mid 2010
50s to 80s but it also made me think of a story my Grandmother wrote for the local newspaper.
Her first trip to Geneva, Alabama was by oxcart. She saw truly momentous changes by the time she was in her 80s.
the early 50s to mid/late 60s were a time unto themselves. the culture changed drastically (downward) late 60s to early 80s. technology has been the driver of change (and whatever is left of “culture”) since then.
1954/55, nobody in space. 1984/85, regular flights with the Space Shuttle.
1954/55, B&W tvs with only a few channels, no personal computers. 1984/85, personal computers and almost everyone has a color tv and cable with VCRs.
1950s to the 1980s, no question about that.
People changed MUCH more from the 80s to now. Technology changed more from the 50s to the 80s.
Much more from the fifties to the eighties.
The internet was born during the 50s to 80s. I think it actually started by universities to share research information. To me it has spurred more change than any other single technology.
” So I am asking a question to those who are old enough to remember life in the 1950s.”
Me,I was in my 20s-——and as I’ve posted before,I looooved the 50s.
Economy humming and no Nanny State———wonderful.
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I was born in the early '50s and remember the Eisenhower years as the best years of my parents life. Much like Ozzie and Harriet.
My parents remember the ‘50s, and have said it was prime time. Their grandparents remembered life before the airplane was invented; they, and my grandparents, probably got serious whiplash from living through the 20th century, though it was a century of miracles. And at least they lived in the USA rather than, say, the USSR.
Me, I’d like to have seen the 1870’s to the 1920’s, except they were lacking antibiotics and youtube. :)
The rate of technological and scientific discovery has accelerated continuously for the past 200 years (at least) without a break. So definitely more change since the 80’s than in the 30 years before then. The Internet alone has caused more changes by itself than the prior generation’s technology (that it was built upon) taken together caused, in my opinion.
I was born in 1954. The changes from the 50’s to 1970 seemed to be mostly cultural. I remember black only entry doors and drinking fountains. The Vietnam war polarized the young people and ended the patriotism left over from WWII. People went from dressing up to go on a bus trip to dressing in shorts, flipflops and a t-shirt to get on a plane. Vending machines appeared over night and schools went from having just one fat kid per class to having just one skinny kid today. (I remember reading on a decent sized bag of potato chips that it contained 2000 calories.)
Then, the technology started changing. In 1972 I went from using a four function calculator at school that was half the size of a desk to an HP35. A year later I had an HP45. Then, I had a programmable HP65. In Engineering school the teacher said, “The next chapter is vacuum tubes. We decided to remove it from the curriculum. You will never see a vacuum tube.” In the 80’s we went from the Motorola brick to flip phones in what seemed the blink of an eye. I had a 2003 Marauder with 32 valves and 300 hp. Today, you can get that from a four cylinder.
I have heard it said that the very last thing humans will invent is artificial intelligence. Hello Sky Net.
Immigration act of 1965 ... nothing else needs to be said ...
Anyone who has children born during this period, it's utterly a no-brainer, their access to, and their control by, communication devices. Phones, games, apps, virtual assistants.
Now change the periods from Wright flight to Man on the Moon, versus Atari to iPhone, and the first period wins.
But your first period is remarkable for its extinguishment of hot war into cold war, and to some extent, the concurrent devolution of society brought about by legalized abortion and extensive drug propagation mid60s-mid70s.
1950 to 1965 were great years, after 67 it went to hell. Lots of ups and downs, but I was a kid of the suburbs of Manhattan, the largest populated borough, Kings County. Everyone got along, it was a time where you didn’t have bars on the windows and only one lock on the door. A lot happened in the world of technology, and medicine,back then, but the more you learn the more you discover, and that leads to more knowledge and more innovation. Socially I would say we all got along, culturally, we were in the world of the Cleavers and the Nelsons (You can throw in the Ricardos and the Kramdens also.) I was at the right age, for the 57 Chevy and duck tail haircut and a date with Marylou at the drive in.
There are different ways to look at it, depending on the subject.
There were many changes in technology ,in the social climate, status of women, sad trends such as single motherhood which have gotten worse. On the other hand, the environment is much cleaner now than in the 80s or the 50s.
Then again, it was possible for middle class families to afford a typical house with one salary in the 50s, which had become difficult to do by the mid 80s, and still harder to achieve nowadays in many parts of the country.
The state of medical care has dramatically improved the quality of life, and saved lives, in recent decades.
This would be an interesting subject for a book, to compare and contrast changes in life over the decades, and whether those changes were good or bad or indifferent.