Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place ...

[RKP5637]

Some interesting pictures from the fifties! This seemed very well done as a collage of the fifties!

[orpupilofnature57]

1. +1

[Glorfindel]

2. Very well done! I remember almost everything depicted.

(Though a few of them were really from the 60's).

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, same here, they popped into my mind

like yesterday!

[SamKnause]

4. Nicely done.

I was born in the summer of 1953 and I remember all of these things.

[GTurck]

5. I remember...

the 50's and some of the late 40's. There were some good things and many major issues that needed resolution but were not addressed and we have to address them now. What we remember is based on our age at the time and our family circumstances. That era was many things but not a place to go back to unless bigotry, misogyny, and stultifying conforming are your thing.

[RKP5637]

6. Definitely, there was that ... bigotry, misogyny, and stultifying. And now, we are still trying to

address them. I had thought over the years it would be far different now, in some ways it is ... I had thought the 60's would be a major step forward. I have been absolutely shocked at the reaction to Obama, for example. Much of it is a WTF! I have no idea, but I bet 60 years from now people will look back and say what horrible times for many. So much gets hidden, but it's still there, and given the opportunity rears its ugly head. Some of us seem to have moved way beyond that, but sadly many still seem locked in it ... the haters ... always looking for something to persecute and hate.

[rurallib]

7. When I think of the '50s, I think of the movie "Pleasantville"

I was born as the decade dawned and thus grew up in the 50s, much of it in front of the TV.
Roles in almost all walks of life seemed to be set and there was expected to be little variation. It almost seemed like we lived in a black and white world.

Then the 60s came along and things colored in, including much shading. Seems underneath that tranquil top was a cauldron of problems aboil.

I remember the 50s as if it were a young person growing up preparing for the raging adolescence of the 60s.
To me the 50s were not a great time. I have 2 older brothers who think the 50s were the greatest.

[RKP5637]

9. I liked the 60's far better. I felt many of us in our youth were connected for a more free

lifestyle. It felt like change and we were progressing someplace better. I was hopeful the problems would possibly be resolved. Still, there were plenty of haters around and insane war. Your description is perfect IMO, in the fifties we lived in a black and white world.

[AlbertCat]

8. HEY!

Where was abstract expressionism?



Beatniks?



12 tone music?

(atomic) Scifi





Y'know with conformity comes some great nonconformity.

[RKP5637]

10. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, this was pretty much the straight and narrow view, adhere to the conformity. I was always on the edge, conformity was not my choice/lifestyle!

[RKP5637]

13. Great stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[jaxind]

11. Fun

Fun to watch, but I would love to see one of these made for the 60s or 70s (when I grew up)!

[RKP5637]

12. The 60s and 70s were great! Yep, there was some bad stuff going on, but I really

liked the 60s and 70s.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. What a trip down memory lane!

[mountain grammy]

15. That was cool. I think the 50's set the tone for the great movements

for peace and equality in the 60's, and we were succeeding. America would have progressed much more without the murders of Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, King and RFK. Our leaders were assassinated one by one, first by the gun and later by the right wing press. We got the message; 1980, Reagan elected in a landslide. Good night America.

[RKP5637]

18. Yep, I was really excited about the future in the 60's as a young kid in college. It just

seemed things were moving in the right direction. Yep, a lot of things were really bad, but it seemed there was a chance for improvement. I was so depressed by the murder of Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, King and RFK. And then the RW press. In DC back then there was this guy Joe Pyne, my first introduction to asses like Limbaugh.

He was an influence on other major talk show hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Wally George, Alan Burke, Chris Matthews, Morton Downey, Jr., Bob Grant, and Michael Savage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pyne

And then came Reagan ... I felt like much of my life in which I was inspired had a huge wet blanket thrown on it ... And then my work career in the beginning was exciting and employees were highly valued as the companies best asset ... CEOs made a little more and everyone was OK with that ... And then over several decades I've watched it rot into this mess we have today.

My father was a very active politician back then, and many of his friends were republicans, even though he was a super strong democrat ... but they worked together, agreed they had some differences, and then worked out solutions (at least tried) that worked for everyone.

[mountain grammy]

21. I know, right? I entered high school in 1960, and JFK was elected soon after..

we were all so hopeful for a better, more equal future. By the time I graduated in 1965, Evers, JFK and Malcolm X were dead and friends were being drafted all around me.

Us liberals sure had the wind knocked out of our sails, but we managed to move forward for a dozen more years till the right wingers took over in force. A Republican president signed the EPA into law, but the resignation of Nixon facing certain impeachment for REAL high crimes and misdemeanors has never been forgiven or forgotten by the GOP. They've been punishing us for it ever since.


I remember Joe Pyne very well.

[jwirr]

16. I remember all of the 50 and most of the 40s. And yes they were good years IF you were even

close to middle class or rich. However, the hunger that George McGovern investigated in the 60s was ignored. Small farmers were going broke and no one even thought it was a bad thing because California needed workers. Women had few opportunities and were expected to stay barefoot and pregnant. The idea of civil rights was for whites only. So many really serious problems were not addressed.

I watched this and saw myself in it - yes I remember all those things - but my father was going broke and we were hungry and I actually had to work to help the family survive at the age of 12. In school I worked in the kitchen scraping trays and later washing dishes. I was the only child in school that had a school job but I think there were many who need help. As a girl college was not an option and most of us got married too young.

The good was there but so was the bad. And I suspect today we are seeing the bad while missing the good. Look for it - or we could lose it.

[EEO]

17. Ah, Uncle Joe.

The U.S. propaganda turned really quick after WW2.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. 50s???

A lot of this stuff is from the 60s.

[RebelOne]

20. Been there and have seen it all.

I was a teenager in the '50s.