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?
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Adultery.
All the crud dumped on the United States from world War II started permeating into the culture.
I was born in the mid-50’s.
Don’t remember a thing.
Example?
Just seemed a simpler more innocent life.
The man who actually WON World War 2 became president.
Elvis fever took off ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY
I figure there couldn’t be a better time to be around!
Textbooks were generally well-written. Librarians were helpful.
Yes, simpler and more innocent than today. But it was when a lot of this stuff originated.
Who do you think won WWII? I thought you’d be the last person to say the United States won.
We left for Memphis in 1960.
The Allied forces. Ike was their general wasn’t he ?
His title was “Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe”
A scene that one sees in some 50s and 60s movies is the teens jumping into and piling in to a convertible and they sit on the back where the roof goes in with their feet on the rear seat.
That was real, there was so little oversight of a lot of personal behavior in America regarding personal risks.
What were the 1950s like?
People wore letterman jackets, ate burgers and drank milkshakes made by Mel and served by Flo, and rocked around the clock. The rebels did the same thing but their jackets were leather and they jumped jetskis over a shark. Wearing leather jackets.
Well, there was a whole lot more depth to it
than just one song by Bill Haley...
It doesn’t seem like the U.S. won. Usually the losing side pays the winning side. The United States paid everything to rehabilitate Germany and Japan. They were forced to “protect the world,” and get the opposite of gratitude for it. The United States was forced to give up all their values and their way of life. It doesn’t sound anything like victory to me. I contend that the United States lost World War II.
You had a surplus of young men and young women, who prior to WWII, would have had jobs or raising kids.
It seems reasonable that the teenage culture started after WWII.
Mel used to drink at the same bar as me on occasion during the shows run.
I was very young but it seemed every woman wore a dress....men wore suit coats and ties to church...I can still smell the coffee grounds being ground up at the A&P....
If I had a time machine, I’d go back to 1950’s America.
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