Daily Life and Popular Culture in the 1950s 

And yet the American people don’t care that they’re getting fucked over lol. As long as they can barley survive paycheck to paycheck they won’t complain.

Workers were paid an adequate wage and the top management about 10 or 20 times what the average worker earned. Nowadays workers don't earn enough to make ends meet and top executives are paid a hundred or a thousand times what the average worker makes. It will lead, it is leading to a breakdown of the social order.

This is the kind of thing that created Weimar Germany in the 1920s. Looks like we're gonna get a nice 100th anniversary.

Women entered the workforce in large numbers in the 70's. Then all the businesses realized most families now had two incomes, and all the prices went up.

@@janesawyer3495 so true

You were blessed I had none of that

sounds wonderful i wish id have had a good life like that. i'm trying to make up for it now in my 40s here's hoping i can make some good memories before i pass on.

​@@Waya420legalize mar-

I hope you're having a great life I am still very young and I enjoy listening to old people and their stories :)

This was the life, even in the 1960s-1980s.

i went to school for near 20 years and cant even get a job lol

But...as grown people, let's review. You have to have skills someone WANTS to pay for. A diploma in something obscure isn't going to help you. If you can't manage without one paycheck or a 400.00 emergency, something is wrong. Where did the 1,200 go? Did most people pay bills? Nope. They bought a new guitar at Guitar Center, whose instrument sales were way up or a flat-screen. I see a ton of people here who can barely write literately. They don't have much in the way of skills and they don't even know how to dress professionally. Shocker nobody is paying you 250.00 an hour unlike lawyers get. Just saying. Buying a new car with a car payment is stupid. A mortgage is also stupid. Unless you like handing a good grand away for nothing every month just because you wanna house. I think it's no bueno if you're only surviving on the government.largesse. It ain't gonna last. I saw a woman who was stupidly doing overseas house sitting. But SOMEHOW managed to rack up 40k in credit card bills?? Now whining she can't pay her bills. But SHE is the one who can't manage money or a business. That's how you GET 40k in credit card bills.

Winds of March Journey/Perry tribute band nice

That is a myth 50% of all women in the 1950's did work. The one-income family was finished off in the 1980s with the deregulation of housing, causing the cost of housing develop faster than people's salaries

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 "unlike lawyers get"

YOU JUST DESCRIBED MY CHILDHOOD ALSO...WE EVEN WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE/SHOPPING TOGETHER AS A FAMILY...WE DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. THANK GOD FOR THOSE GREAT MEMORIES!

Of course you have very few choices as a little girl in the 1950s. Meanwhile ....😂

I’m jealous

Didn't need $$ to have fun!

Did you raise your family the same way or was it more difficult to do?

I grew up exactly like this in the 60's. It did start to change at the end of the decade, though.

Sooooooo simple and AMAZING!!! LUCKY YOU!!! ❤

From your comments it is obvious you were NOT: Black, female, gay or a freethinker! We Americans are famous for not thinking very well! Best of luck!

Us too

I was born in '57 and my childhood in the 60s was very much like yours. Idyllic.

Life before the 80s was grand . Big Brother took over and now people and the government is watching you on cameras .

I'm watching you Ow

Okay

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My grandfather was also born in 1948. His birthday was 22 September. What's yours?

And 3on3 neighbor football games. Girls played too!

@@marknewton6984 backyard barbecues with some neighbors was a fond memory for me. Simple, chicken & potato salad and watermelon for dessert. A simpler time without spending $ and families & neighbors coming together.

RandomRaccoonTopic Yes, it was. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Those days will return After WW3

Yes

It was a great time to grow up.

Cars were the worst pieces of boxes if you lived then. This is probably the most naive comment here.

Let's Go! Back to the 50's

Americans abandoned God as the moral foundation for our Nation and in return God abandoned us to indulge in our self destructive sinful nature. I wasn't born until the 1970's and even I have pangs of nostalgia for the America that once was in the 1950's which I only saw via old black and white TV show reruns as a child. Alas, we had so much potential which has been squandered.

@Herman Greenfield How many people do you know married in the 50s are divorced, tho?

Theresa Chiorazzi yes, so sad !!! What ‘s appen in this crazy world ?

@John Salvage so true!

@it_me Hi how old are you typing this?

Color was invented by Jackie Robinson after he broke the color barrier

@@user-oh8qx7os7o Damn and I thought that the invention of running made by Thomas Running was cool

Whaaaaaaaa ??????????

But thats when racism was still occuring

My little brother thought this lol

patricia collet true. Even stuff rated 12 has loads of inappropriate content (everything is so sexualised)

patricia collet i am french but when i went in USA , 15 years ago the first thing i was looking for was a drive-in theater, it seems it was a dreamy life

@@madelainebellini7447 Exactly as it should be.

Arnas Bakanas ??

My parents grew up in the 50s and 60s wonder why I mostly stopped watching TV. I’ll watch cowboy pics with my dad but this new stuff?! No!

Same here...married at 22yrs old right out of nursing school, paid off student loans hard core, then became a stay at home mom at 25yrs when my first child was born, and have always home schooled. We do everything together as a family. My husband is a nurse. We married in 2007...it is totally possible to glean all the good stuff from the past and bring it into the present.

22:21 and me. Married 1979. No phone and no tv till we could afford them. Borrowed twin tub. Second hand furniture. Children wore hand me downs. Coal fire. No central heating. All home baking with a wooden spoon! Didn’t miss what we didn’t have and very much appreciate everything. It’s a different world now

Amen. Me too.

I'm sure it was a blast if you were white, rich and straight

We were not exempt from troubles in the 50’s, and we weren’t rich by any means. But compared to the 60 years since, we were living in Utopia. They were indeed the “Golden Years”, it was a magic time. How fortunate we were!!!

@@yortlebluzzgubbly3871 EXACTLY!!! Life was comfortable if you were white & middle class.

@@yortlebluzzgubbly3871 You might want to add male

California was a dream destination at the time

Unless one's childhood was sheer hell, I imagine 99 percent of all people look back on them as simpler, better times. That doesn't make it so, but nostalgia can be a wonderful thing.

Me too, we lived through a fantastic period and were part of the culture!

@@lreking8929 1% of me😃

For white Americans

1950s was a far better era as it was much stronger politically and economically than the 1980s.

My favorite decades 🥺

My two favorite decades.

Growing up in the 80s (like I did) made you part of Generation X. We did NOT have it easy. Lots of divorce and being ignored by our “Me Generation” parents.

Then how do you know either was so great? 🤔

You would go back to an era of violent racism and rampant misogyny? I bet you would.

@@RadiantSilverlighter there was none of that in my town family or life….so I don’t know what your life was like but mine was pretty good in 50’s and 60’s.

@@yankee2666 I lived them as a child. I’m talking about the simplicity of life in general. There were rules, stability, respect, discipline, socializing, moms at home, children had shores, children looked forward to Christmas and birthdays for a gift not being given everything they want when they want it. I worked for my first bike and took good care of it. I remember going for tea in afternoon at friends with my grandma where the lady was so happy to have company to take out their best dishes and always fresh deserts. Why are our children now suffering so much mentally, crimes and killings a daily occurrence nowhere is safe. I could go on and on about our lifestyle decay we are now living.

Yeah the 50s were a good time for white people

Despite segregation, blacks had it good as well. Our communities were filled with hard working, respectful, and intelligent men and women who were involved in the community. My mom grew up in Chicago and tells me the most wonderful stories of her childhood.

@@kjblalark1409 America was over 90% white in the 1950s so that's kind of an irrelevant statement.

Colt McGrady but the U.S is literally called the melting pot of countries. Aren’t they the literal description of a multi-racial country?

@@e.michelle2424 my parents grew up in the south and went to all segregated schools etc and they track about the racism only occasionally. They mostly talk about life on the farm, family drama, the crazy young people things they did (my dad would race cars!) everyday stuff. People back then weren’t sitting around pontificating all the ills of society ALL the time. It was not like today with social media echo chambers.

Respect with racism? Sexism?

agreed! although not perfect, today is riveting! young men and women are encouraged to degrade themselves on the internet because its impowering people even praise the behavior of underaged children twerking. the 50s was a place of structure and culture. and to the people that use the racist card as an excuse, sure things were not perfect but compare it today. people discriminate more than ever. we live in a world of hate, everyone hates everyone and hate crimes are skyrocketing. cost of living, propaganda, overpopulation and being out of touch with your own family

Well, that was then, this is how. It was engineered to get generations of millions to labor and save, and finally for most all of that to end in the accounts of wealth of the wealthy.

Yes you are so right. Although I only viewed America through the media, the 50's was a wonderful decade for Americans. Sure the Korean War and the start of the Cold War (which extends to this day) were depressing factors for everyone, but the material/domestic prosperity, great cars, great music, great movies, fast food, and a lot of other factors, made it a great decade for the US.

Andy Ortaaslan wow

Notice African Americans wasnt mentioned in this because they weren't look at as equal people being killed and hung around this era

@@joshuarogers5829 African Americans had levels of unemployment similar to white Americans. And it was also the era of Civil rights were republicans fought against democrats to introduce Civil Rights. Democrats actively blocked Civil Rights.

@Jan Pearson Democrats blocked black rights why did you act as if they were the ones who brought the rights?

that's great... now show respect for the GOAT GENERATION, THE MILLENIALS! THAT INCLUDES ME.

I bet you're white.

@@RadiantSilverlighter lmao

Yes, for white men, forget the others

i wish i could be that lucky

Well I guess it depends where you lived and what your experiences were. We had neighbors of all races and then school my friends were of all races too. That was in the San Francisco area

@@BoosterDuck9 No our schools were not segregated in the San Francisco/Daly City area. I actually didn't start school until 1962, but I had older siblings that had friends of all races from school.

News has always been controlled.

@@topcat7349 There's a great little paperback novel called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. I just finished my copy… loved it.

@@topcat7349 I believe more progressive areas didn’t consider segregation in any event. We were all kids, didn’t matter what color the wrapper.

I love this one! 🤗

@@inspiredfandoms3462 Right! It makes you wanna go out and look for a time machine and ride that baby back to an era of "black and white bliss". Lol, like being in I Dream Of Jeannie or Leave It To Beaver😌

the 50's were simply a facade made of racism and homophobia to the real world outside. the 50's was extremely strong politically and economically this is true, but for social wellbeing? an absolute mess. if you stood out in any way you were shamed and pronounced "mentally ill" and being anything but a white straight male was probably terrible in the 50's because of the social constructs. suburbs and car centrism were on the rise and americans became more and more socially isolated and this can be attributed to the rise of depression and anxiety in the US to this day not to mention vehicle emissions and climate change. i don't get why even today most people wish to go back to the 50's when we've come so far socially and scientifically and to go back to such a dull and conformist decade.

Nowadays as a woman I don't like going to the grocery store alone too many crazy people people out there running running around lose 😮

Electronics, computers had an advantage but at the same time separated people especially the 2000,s where 69 % of elementary kids have cell phones. Too much typing, watching not enough interaction and so socially inept.

@@alextaylor4513 Dull and conformist decade? You know nothing about it.

​@@alextaylor4513nope. Look up Paul Lynde and Liberace. Both were gay both were very popular during the 50s. Please do not discuss what you do not know.

TV was creative and wholesome--imagine that!! I was privileged to grow up in the 50s. We tried to raise our daughter in the 80-90s in a protected environment, but the culture had changed too much.

@@bestpossibleworld2091 we tried the same. It was a different world. Entitlement had entered in.

I too lost my Dad to a bad heart 1957 when I was almost 7. My mom did an exceptional job of racing us 4 kids ( I was the oldest) and if there was any financial problems we never knew of it.

@@suestephan3255 I was the youngest of two boys. I wish I could say that my mom did an exceptional job of raising the two of us, but, alas, I cannot.

More hate crimes and open racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia,abuse… AHHHHH, so simple UwU

Yup! We are living that way in our house. My bf is older than me but our values are the same. I stay home. He works. I take care of the home and our son. He pays the bills. We have dinner together. It's important to us.

Lovely for women who want that. I am glad i have a choice and am not forced into being a stay at home mother. This is rose tinted glasses.

Not good for women tho. Completely dependent on a man for the very food she eats

Me too 🤘

If you are black?

@@Aegon_Targaryen I AM EGYPTIAN I LOVE LIVING IN 1950S IN BOTH USA AND EGYPT

@John Q. Random yep

@Black Wolf98 retribution is near for them who throught was the good ole days, so do china in 2020

@BlackSoul98 right lol

@Black Recluse Another comment from senone who doesn't know better. Go be told little guy, go be told. This was a white nation and black families did rather well.

@Black Recluse P.s. Pick up an old newspaper, blacks segregated themselves. This is what modern education and hate brings. People like this.

No, no it wasn’t all this presents by a long shot. There were a LOT of unhappily married adults and their marriages remained a battle zone until their death. What a “wholesome” environment to be growing up in, uh huh.....

@@tundrawomansays5067 That wasn't the majority. Just hush.

The 1950s had many of the same problems we have today, society just pretended they did not exist

Yeah, dream on. There were many taboo topics, racism, male dominance, unwed mothers, divorcees were ostracized -and many more.

The last one is severely lacking in todays society.

And No tattoos on women!

Hello, Ginny, How are you doing today?

Nice

That’s awesome! 🤟

How was it? Im a teen now and i wished i lived in those times.

@@wurstbrot3124 the best, enjoy your teen years time goes by fast and prepare for a good future.

@@mairim4578 i will sir 👍🏼

I would of loved to be a teen during the 50s

@@c.kerns0118 hi,am now 78,the 50’s what a life,I was very lucky,great memories,stay safe.

Ha! THERE ya go, Cindy! Pretty much a similar story here. It is sad that many here actually hate us for this. It has been taught to them to the purpose of ACTING on it one day.

@@jamesmiller4184 People hate everything today because that's all they know. They are ungodly. Being just 35 I have a great sense of what I missed and think about it all the time. Growing up now I am filled with sorrow.

Id say I cannot understand why kids today can't find anything to do besides video games and phone messages. Put them outside and a lot of them look confused as to what to do now. Growing up these days isn't the same. Myself I was rarely bored we mostly made our own fun.

You were able to spend $5.00 for BURGERS ?????? My dad would have slit his wrist before spending that much on burgers no matter how many kids there were . we got burgers MAYBE once a year when the burger joint ( and I do mean joint ) had a special . a 10 cent meat and bread one . that was it . meat and bread . it was cheaper than buying burger meat at the store .

@@howardwayne3974 Just saw your reply. It’s along time ago for us, huh? Don’t get me wrong. That was not an ordinary occurrence.

@@texas1949 I get it man . yeah it was a HELL of a long time ago . one thing for sure there sure as hell weren't any terrorist bombings back then . law enforcement was allowed to do their job . I have a brotherwhise a detective on the force back home , and he fills me in on the staff P D s go through . you wouldn't believe all the crap .

@@howardwayne3974 yes I would. It’s crazy. Much respect to the blue line and other service workers.

@@howardwayne3974 /

Coffee Bean I love drive ins! They don’t really have them near me, but when I used to live in New York there was a drive in, and I loved it so much

@@belle369 In CT, you could find some around the area. I can't remember exactly, but I'm sure a couple are still open!

I wish there was still a drive in near me! ✌️

The ones I went to were old relics into the early 70 s and were very old and the speakers were terrible

A great show! All the family sitcoms of the era taught lessons and truths. The families were idealized, sure, but showed what family life should be, and we strived for that. I grew up in the 50s, and would relive growing up then in a heartbeat.

Amen!

Yes, definitely

Well done 53 years today people divorce for any reason they don't have stayability and I agree 💯 that God has no place in the lives of people did you know that in the book of Timothy second c3v4 it says that people will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God Eileen peace to you

@@jager896 Thank you, Eileen. God bless and keep you. Hugs from Gloria 👼🏻💗

@@myrebornlilliebeth5164 Thank you Gloria Eileen

It was a wonderful time to be a kid!

In a nutshell, it was.

Sure if you were white the 50s was allllllright!!

Thank God I was white in the 50' s and still am now!!

@@jadedavis822 Sigh......

back in those days people were smiling, men used to wear suits and people had respect

Gencturk92 I remember my Mom wearing a dress and pearls to ride a bus to the city for a little shopping and that was normal.

@@wb6162 i wonder what the best years to live in were: 50's, 60's or 70's

@@Gencturk92 I hardly knew the 50s, for the most part, I called the 1960s the "I don't care" decade - they say the word "disabled" today? Never heard of that in the 60s, if you're in a wheelchair then, you're a "cripple" - I wish I enjoyed the 1970s then, YES - they were the better decade.

Very true. You made a great point about them being well dressed

Too many people now, things were better because the popular wasn't so large and the world population wasn't over 8 billion, it's the main reason inflation keeps going up and up because of how many people there is and how many people need jobs now, it's happier when there's less people because there's not so many people for the system to look after and feed now it's just crazy it's being allowed to get so big and it's not stopping... they mean to let it get to 9, 10 billion but i hate to think what that will be like in future.

Tbh it has always been a hell

If it wasn't for how brown people were treated as less then... I would agree... the nuclear family has been demonized and its ridiculous

Awww yeah, the more civil time, when Americans fought for segregation and flipped our and harassed black people who were finally allowed to attend the same schools as white people!

Yeah, its like we are losing a bit of our humanity as time goes

Hey, kiddo, it wasn't a hard life at all. What makes you think it was?

Today they would probably be drinking a glass of Cola and eating lots of sweet foods.

bighand69 yup a bag of chips and in my case water but juice or soda

I’m so jealous 😅

Awesome! 🤗

I always say if we could travel back the 50’s and show them the insanity we live in today, they’d nuke themselves. Try telling them that the world believes that a man can be a woman and vice versa. I literally cannot believe the insanity we live in. God bless you Miss Joanne.

Thank you for sharing

I'll be 80 next Tuesday (6/21). The fifties were very special to me. I loved the old B&W sci-fi movies. I watch them now on you tube. I have so many vivid memories of that time, and I frequently cannot remember what I did last week.

We were happier with less. Today sucks.

huh tell that to the 88% of americans at the time who called them selfs racist in 1956 wow what a nice decade

@@spanicandkgyo8547 cry more

@@spanicandkgyo8547 boohoo

@@spanicandkgyo8547 i rather be treated good instead or being treated like trash today by all the other skin colors

@@santaclaus3077 what up with the violence guys chill

Yeah I just adore this decade and all the comments I see are generally "Oh you like this? Well then you MUST be white!" There's NOTHING we can do to change the past people so please quit egging it on, use it as a teaching example not a tool to feel self righteous

I was born in 1948 and the 1950’s really were a wonderful time!

One of my relatives said that the BEST Part of westerns were that you can See Telephone wires. Helicopters. And cars pass by if you looked hard enough

@@ezrahalstead4397 Said the white man. We could use our history as a teaching example if what is taught is the truth. The '50s was not Leave it to Beaver for everyone. Black and brown Americans were about 20% of the populace and they were oppressed, exploited and discriminated against all over the country. Lynching black men was a favored pastime in the deep south. Women were marginalized, urban slums were overcrowded and overlooked and homosexuality was a crime. Everyone was fearful of Communism and nuclear war to the point of hysteria and infectious diseases were killing tens of thousands every year. There's much more so if you want to learn our history you owe it to yourself to learn all of it. Self righteousness doesn't enter in to it.

@Juvenal Lombera it did but not the 50s fad style,it only lived until 1962 as if the 50s style did not end until 1962 but yeah you're right,the 50s did end numerically in 1960 but not the fad style.

Jon Flowers and started in 1947

It's not related to music but Ive heard it said the 60s began with JFK assassination.

@Jan Pearson The 50s ended with the abominable Beatles.

@Bruno56 The 50s end in December 31, 1959

Hardly, the Republican Party of the 1950s closely resembles the Democratic party of today. Economically Eisenhower was to the left of Obama

I agree! 🙌

FDR, Wallace, Eisenhower, Truman. These were some of most progressive presidents in the US history. Although Eisenhower was a Republican he supported the minimum wage, student loans and the interstate system. This was at a time when unions were also increasing. Today conservatives oppose these things (big government).

@@hnys7976 Next, I’m going to hear that Lincoln didn’t freed the slaves and Jefferson Davis (Democrat) ended slavery. You liberals are good at rewriting history.

@@MemoryLane77852 Its not rewriting history when it is true. In the past 40 years both the Republican and Democrat party have gone right - Chomsky.

It was simple because America was a free market country that gave freedom to people.

@Herman Greenfield The first Amendment is very clear as is the second, third and so on.

@Herman Greenfield The 1950s were definitely a decade where the America thrived, and yes, spread Freedom throughout Western Europe, and contained Communism (some questionable decisions were made in the process of containing Communism, but South Korea turned out nice lol)

Me too

My wife's parents emigrated to America in the 50's , and believe me Europe was a bombed out wreak from W W 2. Even into the late 60's you could see buildings in England that had been hit in the blitz and half the building was sheared off and the bathtub was still hanging out over the edge . and thus was in London , not some little backwater .

60s for me were ok till mid 60s, rock n roll changed, drugs came on the scene, long hair, protests, still prefered the 50s, more wholesome.

Don't say that the 1980s were a repeat of the 50s every thing in the 80s was coming out new gadgets like in the 50s🤔😂😁

@@vincentnichols402 No it wasn't lol. The 80s marked the end of the New Deal which made the 1950s possible in favor of Neo-Liberalism. The 80s was the genesis of all the problems we have today.

Yep the 50s and 60s were good years to live in. Cheap and safe

Why is that?

We made stuff here in America had lots of resources to work with and where the only ones left really making following the second world war and frankly are leaders at the time still probably liked the country

Same 🤘

@William Sharman I’am about a hour from Boone North Carolina - up in the Blue Ridge Mts - just wish life could be like it was back when - so simple Everything layed out simply - Blessings

I remember from when I was a little kid in the early 50's our t v was in a heavy metal case which was good because my dad was a cop at the time and his brother was staying with us looking for work . well , he was playing around with my dads pistol and accidentally fired it and it hit the t v and went in one side but didn't come out the other , just made a bulge in the case . good for me because I was on the side where the bulge was .

@@howardwayne3974 Wow. I'd have been super pissed off if I were your Dad, though.

@@miriambucholtz9315 yeah , as it was told to me later in years by my mom , she thought my dad ( who was asleep from his night shift ) was going to kill him he beat his brother so bad . my dad and his people grew up on farms and ranches in southeast Texas picking cotton and working cattle and horses so they were some strong assed son's this was not an easy thing to watch my mom said . she picked me up and ran out the door to get her dad ( who was a boilermaker - welder on ships and tugs down at the Houston shipchannel) to try to settle them down . no dice . they made their peace not long after that though , and my uncle wound up saving my life in a car wreck when I was 5 by keeping me from going through the wind shield when a truck pulled out in front of us on a rain slicked highway . all I remember from it was what I remember is a woman in a nurses white uniform wearing the old fashioned nurses cap put her head in the door asking if anyone was hurt and needed help . sorry this was so long , memories come back and start tumbling out .

And the racism. Beautiful racism. And child abuse. Domestic abuse. Crime.

Like that's disappeared? So we have that plus lack of God in our lives. When you get rid of God, other gods will rush in to fill the place, you know like " everything is permissible if you call it "Love". Yeah crap happened back then and life wasn't a bed of roses for everybody but has it ever been. Jesus the Klan more or less disappeared because it couldn't compete with what the blacks were doing to themselves. Pedophilia is now even being publicly being discussed as a "life choice". You ever watched that movie "No Country for Old Men"? Tommie Lee Jones character says, " This country started going downhill when we stopped using the words 'ma'am and sir'. Go on RU-vid and look at the way people act if they don't get enough ketchup with their fries. Schools don't teach common morality and manners anymore. These days it takes more than 5 people getting shot to death to even catch our interest. As for the other stuff it hasn't really lessened, it just hides better.

@@jameretief8327 Yeah, despite what Breitbart or Fox News or whatever you pay attention to would have you believe, nobody apart from paedophiles (who, and I'd hate to break your bubble here, existed back in the 50s as well) are trying to advocate it as a "life choice". As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet overall cases of child molestation are probably way less these days because we're more aware of it and know what red flags to look out for. Not entirely sure what you mean by "what the blacks were doing to themselves" but I assure you it won't have been half as bad as what the whites were doing to them. If you judge human society solely by clickbait people upload to RU-vid then that's on you. People screamed their lungs out at retail workers back then as well, RU-vid just didn't exist for you to see it all. The 50s was a time of cold war, pre civil rights, the Korean war, and kids dying from polio. Every generation has had it's ups and downs, the 50s weren't some golden age just because they made some decent movies and music and you can't lose your rose tinted glasses.

wow life was only nice if you were middle class, straight ,white and even better if you were rich wow what nice decade was in't

@@learn2draw716 Bogus, read an old newspaper. Quit spreading racism.

Grew up in 90s too it was calm. Felt lot more greener. More outdoor, park sport activities, bike rides, going walks with mates. Now it's different, lot less.

I fucking loathe social media and how tech our society is, and also how mentally ill people act for attention. I’m in my 20s. It’ll only get worse. Ugh.

@@silllykitten329 wait for the 2050s.

@@silllykitten329 It'll be getting worse day by day, I'm afraid.

And still here we are. On youtube.

the family doesn't eat together anymore?

No. They don’t. And having an actual family is rare these days

Yes I agree 💯 with you in the words of a famous man Jesus who said that you must love your neighbor as yourself and in the words of a famous song what a wonderful world it would be if only Eileen peace to you