Daily Life and Popular Culture in the 1950s
This video provides a brief overview of daily life in the 1950s, as well as a look at American popular culture during the decade. What did you think? Please leave a comment in the section below and remember to share the video and sign up for our free newsletter!
December 11, 2021 @ 5:09 pm
What a great time to be a kid! Got to pick/eat wild strawberries after getting off the school bus…?had to change clothes… school to play. Played with kids on my streets, rode bikes. Dad got home from his job at 5:00 … dinner was ready and on the table at 5:30… there was no option to miss dinner….or eat elsewhere. You finished what was on your plate. Parents (both) were there to check completed homework. Life was easy, fun and you followed rules… parents, teachers, adults were to be respected. It changed over the century… won’t even bother going there. Hurray for 50s kids and times,
September 27, 2021 @ 9:47 am
Tom e. Good stuff, childhood & teenager memories. When Family life important& times were much ‘cleaner’.
Only issue .. photos change too quickly to enjoy the details in background.
June 22, 2021 @ 3:49 pm
Wonder years and wonderful years- great friends and neighbors, fabulous time to grow up with the fun music and God given freedoms of speech, religion, great schools that taught youngsters valuable lessons of history, health and how to grow up and so many other valuable life lessons.
I feel so sorry for the young people today – they are robbed of so much these sicko days!
November 19, 2020 @ 11:41 am
We weren’t perfect but we did attempt to be. Children actually showed respect for their parents and people in authority. Great times! So much better than how we are today.
October 6, 2021 @ 2:17 am
Perhaps some forgot to teach these things to their children. The technology age has been a double edge sword definitely and computers etc can be seen as counter productive devices in many cases. The first car I drove was a 1949 Pontiac green coup and playing in the neighborhood until dark was so wonderful!
December 14, 2021 @ 1:36 am
Can you imagne the language of today…back then? Respect was the key word you mentioned. We respected “our elders”…and that meant everyone! Teachers, adults, anyone in authority…today if a teen is stopped by a officer, and they ask for their license, they are cussed at, and accused of being labeled and harrassed. How did this happen?
November 8, 2020 @ 1:58 am
I remember. So what?
December 14, 2021 @ 1:32 am
It’s a shame when you can;t say anything but “so what”! Obviously, you didn;t have a great time…I did…and then my kids grew up in the 70’s…and it still was a good time, becuase they had their parents who lived in the 50s….we lived and passed on the values we learned back then.
I shudder to think what the kids of today will become….look at them now!
October 13, 2020 @ 12:51 pm
I grew up in the ’50’s. All of the kids in the neighborhood would get together after school and play together. Adults were not involved. For adult involvement you would have to join scouts. (I don’t remember Little League.) Kids were free to be kids until we returned home for dinner.
Who could forget the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, the Friday Nite Fights, and the Ed Sullivan Show?
October 12, 2020 @ 3:42 pm
Indeed these were good times,most people were poor but we did not know we were poor ,we did however have our principles, I can only hope that we are able to value these principles as we advance into the future.
October 12, 2020 @ 8:27 am
I grew up during this period and this brought back many happy memories for me. It was a great period (1940-1950’s) to grow up in.
February 15, 2022 @ 2:45 pm
Our first TV was in 1947, all that was on was Howdy Doody and the Lone Ranger .
October 11, 2020 @ 9:51 am
What a wonderful time. Families were together. Children were taught right from wrong. Parents had time for their families and drugs among young people didn’t exist. You came home from school to open the door to wonderful smells of your mother cooking dinner. She was always there to greet you. When our father came home from his factory job, we all sat at the kitchen table and had a cup of coffee with him. Ours, of course, was more milk than coffee. It was an afternoon ritual. We were entertained with the radio. We did not get television until much later. Our imagination ran wild with the stories on the radio. Lux Radio Theater was our favorite and of course The Shadow. What wonderful times and I am so glad I was part of it.
October 11, 2020 @ 8:59 am
Greatt stuff. Lots of memories!