America in the 1950's - What a time! Look!
Posted: June 14th, 2018, 11:29 am
Wow check out this video about life in America in 1957. Wow it was so much better in many ways than today.
Check out this great comment below the video where someone describes what it was like during that era:
"James Miller
"Having lived during this time I can confirm all that you have presented above. It IS as it was. For instance . . . Everything was remarkably inexpensive and almost all items were marked "Made in USA". Sure, inflation existed but, it was a slow moving affair 'though over the long run it sure added up, stealing savings thereby. Our family doctor made house calls, now a thing of the past if you are not truly wealthy. The Hippocratic Oath ruled those early doctors' conscience' when the notion of becoming well off by doctoring laid safely in the future. Also, entrepreneurial effort could be rewarded with riches if one had the requisite talent, creativity and drive. (Here let's think early computer ideas and the famous non-corporate types that had them.) The level of civility as taught was far higher, with nary a curse word to be heard publicly. We kids all seemed to have a standard type outfit: T-shirts with those colorful horizontal stripes across them. My grand parents, as I remember well. almost always dressed 'to the nines' when going out to do even ordinary things, and my grandmother in Fox Furs to go out weekend shopping! Yikes! But they did so more in the Forties and this lessened somewhat going into the Fifties. The subject of (shhh S-E-X!) was left mainly to be divined by ESP in many cases. Well, it seemed that way looking back. In my small desert town which we inhabited Middle-class style, there were the occasional slip-ups happening, when some couple would be reported (down the grape-vine) as having to get married quickly. And, as I remember, very occasionally the police would show up at my high school and some teacher forever after was to never appear again. In those days, other than some ugly stuff just as now, there was no verbal description existing for "gay" but, very sub terra and quietly, much of such-related action somehow got done and with not inconsiderable abandon, wanton or no, the parents only very rarely catching-on. (Naturally I do no speak of this from personal knowledge, but rather compliments of that same rumoring Grape-vine.) Worries were about things mostly mundane as compared to now, where so many are deadly-serious. The Atomic Energy thing did not occupy much of my mind's time at all. Also, a real high-light was the Atomic themed science fiction B&W movies we kids went into town to see, or earlier, to what was called the Drive-In Theater where while in our autos we would watch movies projected outside. For a truly authentic portrayal of our Fifties Science Fiction movie revels, do see "Matinee" starring John Goodman. THEN you will understand!! (Even tho this particular action happened in the early Sixties, it was identical earlier. Take my word for it.) As far as violence went, it essentially did not exist, and when some thing did break forth, it was BIG NEWS, and not something regular as to happening. Racial tensions? Absolutely non-existent! (One of the wicked evils of segregation, now nice and all-fixed.) That's the report."
Someone else said that in 1957 their dad made 27 dollars a week and was able to buy a house and raise a family of four with that. But that america is gone.
Check out this great comment below the video where someone describes what it was like during that era:
"James Miller
"Having lived during this time I can confirm all that you have presented above. It IS as it was. For instance . . . Everything was remarkably inexpensive and almost all items were marked "Made in USA". Sure, inflation existed but, it was a slow moving affair 'though over the long run it sure added up, stealing savings thereby. Our family doctor made house calls, now a thing of the past if you are not truly wealthy. The Hippocratic Oath ruled those early doctors' conscience' when the notion of becoming well off by doctoring laid safely in the future. Also, entrepreneurial effort could be rewarded with riches if one had the requisite talent, creativity and drive. (Here let's think early computer ideas and the famous non-corporate types that had them.) The level of civility as taught was far higher, with nary a curse word to be heard publicly. We kids all seemed to have a standard type outfit: T-shirts with those colorful horizontal stripes across them. My grand parents, as I remember well. almost always dressed 'to the nines' when going out to do even ordinary things, and my grandmother in Fox Furs to go out weekend shopping! Yikes! But they did so more in the Forties and this lessened somewhat going into the Fifties. The subject of (shhh S-E-X!) was left mainly to be divined by ESP in many cases. Well, it seemed that way looking back. In my small desert town which we inhabited Middle-class style, there were the occasional slip-ups happening, when some couple would be reported (down the grape-vine) as having to get married quickly. And, as I remember, very occasionally the police would show up at my high school and some teacher forever after was to never appear again. In those days, other than some ugly stuff just as now, there was no verbal description existing for "gay" but, very sub terra and quietly, much of such-related action somehow got done and with not inconsiderable abandon, wanton or no, the parents only very rarely catching-on. (Naturally I do no speak of this from personal knowledge, but rather compliments of that same rumoring Grape-vine.) Worries were about things mostly mundane as compared to now, where so many are deadly-serious. The Atomic Energy thing did not occupy much of my mind's time at all. Also, a real high-light was the Atomic themed science fiction B&W movies we kids went into town to see, or earlier, to what was called the Drive-In Theater where while in our autos we would watch movies projected outside. For a truly authentic portrayal of our Fifties Science Fiction movie revels, do see "Matinee" starring John Goodman. THEN you will understand!! (Even tho this particular action happened in the early Sixties, it was identical earlier. Take my word for it.) As far as violence went, it essentially did not exist, and when some thing did break forth, it was BIG NEWS, and not something regular as to happening. Racial tensions? Absolutely non-existent! (One of the wicked evils of segregation, now nice and all-fixed.) That's the report."
Someone else said that in 1957 their dad made 27 dollars a week and was able to buy a house and raise a family of four with that. But that america is gone.