How was life like in the 1950's in the states? I'm looking for things like the usual occupation a male/female has, and some of the common duties of children, and simliar things. Thanks!
2006-11-26 11:40:01 · 6 answers · asked by Espressologie 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Ok; this is pretty general, and perhaps trivial, but: in 1952, the average income was $3850.
A loaf of bread cost 16 cents; a gallon of gas, 20 cents, and a gallon of milk, 97 cents!!
A new car cost $1754 and a new home $9075!!
A lot of women were housewives. Not sure what an "average" male occupation was. Common "duties" of children: to go to school, help with house/yard work.
Not sure how helpful this is. Got some of it off a refrigerator magnet! (Time Magnets from the pages of Time)
2006-11-26 11:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by 60s Chick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life was...different, and changed rapidly. The U.S. entered the decade thinking of itself as a bal;anced agricultural/industrial nation, and by the end of the '50s realized that the agricultural lifestyle was practiced by a distinct minority of the population (as opposed to the period 1790-1910, when more than 50% of Americans were farmers). The National Highway System was begun in the 1950s. The Space Program was begun in the '50s...
2006-11-26 20:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by Dr_Adam_Bricker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life in the 1950´s in the States was very placid, low criminality and hope.
In Washington DC. you could leave your bicycle on your front lawn all night and next day it was still there.
It was what one could call the Elvis Presley era.
Teenagers liked to dress in blue jeans, black leather jackets,
boots with thick leather belt called "bombers"
Boys hair do varied between , Elvis type, Flat Top, and side Wings.
Rock and Roll, was the music and Jitter Bug, the dance.
Most people believed in God and respected religion, this created an inner strength in Americans, principles were strong.
"Norman Rockwell" was America´s artist who pictured life in the 1950´s ( see : www. Norman Rockwell)
In those years America had come victorious from World War II
had helped Russia, China, Australia, France and England win the war and had become the first world power in the world.
Eisenhower, the man who had led the American forces to victory in Europe, and he was president.
Americans still did not see the future problems they would have to face
For the moment they looked eye to eye at the future and with confidence
2006-11-26 21:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dirt roads were still common. Most families had one car if any at all.
There were no microwave ovens, color tv's, PC, calculators, or electronic handheld games. Children played outside, with each other. Dinners took longer to make in the oven. Pencil and paper or slide rule if you where a geek of the times.
When I was a boy we wore button down shirts and slacks to school. No leather. Girls worn skirts and blouses.
Jobs types were similar but that away the technology. Office work, blue collar outside work, fishermen, farmers, milkmen. (there is something that disappeared). Barbers, restaurant owners, bartenders, all the same different technology to support the work. Even the government employed people to do much the same work with different tools.
And for the people who had them phones had rotating dials on them not buttons, some people even had party lines for phones, (shared line to a group, each person had it's own phone). For food there was less crap in cardboard boxes and more real food with less chemicals in them.
2006-11-27 02:54:31 · answer #4 · answered by Carl P 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Read the book "The Fifties" by David Halberstand. Completely comprehensive and truly wonderful.
2006-11-26 19:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Who cares 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rock and roll
bill haley and the comets
gene vincent
duane eddy
cool cars
cheesey b rated movies
(teenagers from outer space)
2006-11-26 23:25:03 · answer #6 · answered by turkey 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋