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1956
People saw people like themselves and their neighbors on the Saturday Evening Post covers and settled down after the family dinner to have the whole family to watch TV together. I Love Lucy, Jack Benny, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, the Millionaire, Jackie Gleason or Disneyland.📺
Going to church on Sunday.⛪🛐
On a typical Sunday morning in the period from 1955-58, almost half of all Americans were attending church – the highest percentage in U.S. history. During the 1950s, nationwide church membership grew at a faster rate than the population, from 57 percent of the U.S. population in 1950 to 63.3 percent in 1960.
—USC Today
I remember Sunrise services in the 50s...
The 50’s, I remember them as a child born in 1950. The family sitting around together watching TV on a tiny black and white screen with “rabbit ears” antenna on top. We couldn’t afford a roof antenna. Only got 3 channels, and two of them had poor reception. Disney wasn’t gay in those days and “gays” what few of them there were, were referred to as queers and universally hated, sometimes beaten, and even killed if they touched a child. There were fewer commercials, and you could depend on there not being a mixed race family depicted in any of them. TV signed off at night at about midnight, because that’s when people who weren’t working nightshift slept. There were no commercials pitching drugs or womens personal hygiene products or talking about erectile disfunction. No cute teddy bears talking about how well a certain toilet paper wipes their ass. I am more thankful everyday that I was born and raised in those times, and I feel bad for the kids of today being raised with all this propaganda and filth.