the "fifties" take a ride back to yesteryear,,,excellent memories

[DemInDistress]

http://home.hiwaay.net/~singer/Fifties.htm

for those that remember of course..

[misanthrope]

1. Where's the...

...racial segregation? The disease and sketchy healthcare? The social ostracization of working women or those who stepped out of line? How about the unsafe work conditions or almost nonexistent forensic sciences?

Sounds like what the originator of that site longs for is "childhood," not so much a specific era.

[LostinVA]

3. Beat me to it... except you forgot the life gays led

[EFerrari]

6. There were no gays in the fifties. Women were friends

and men were bohemian. :eyes:

[MrMonk]

10. Euphemisms still used today

by those who were young then:

"two batchelors together" who live down the street, and
aunt's "special girlfriends".

I'll bet that every adult and most of the older kids knew what the real story was, even in the '50s. Nice people just didn't discuss such things.

[EFerrari]

12. That must be right. A friend of mine did a dissertation

on lesbians in the Renaissance. Did she have major code cracking to do.

[LostinVA]

15. Or "confirmed bachelors" -- my 83-year-old grandma still says it

You know, about the two old men in town who breed cats and have lived together for 50 years? "Confirmed bachelors."

[LSK]

5. how about all those back alley abortions that killed women?

I remember some of that stuff but I grew up in the 70s/80s.

Yes it looks more like a longing for childhood vs an era.

[EFerrari]

8. And all that really horrible architecture?

oops.

:yoiks:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. I remember!

Great "boomer" site.

The '50's were great years for me. Of course, I hadn't yet hit puberty! So probably any decade would have been good times.

[izzie]

4. Oh yes but these also will be good old days to some one

--

[Speck Tater]

7. I remember, but he left out a few things...

McCarthyism, segregation and KKK, Drop and Cover A-bomb drills in school, polio and kids in iron lungs, Asian Flu, rampant polution as if tomorrow didn't matter, and I remember when they ADDED "under God" to the pledge so don't give me that crap about it being "traditional".

(ed:typo)

[DanCa]

9. Is it true the world was black and white in fhe fifties?

And that everyone had a woodshed? Seriously though the mid to late 1950's was a great time for music. I think that's about it though.

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Yep, they even had black and white drinking fountains

[Branjor]

14. I didn't have a woodshed....

But maybe because I grew up in the Bronx.

[DemInDistress]

16. wow..where in the Bronx? I am on Pelham Pkwy...nt

[RebelOne]

13. I remember it all very well.