Were the 1950s America's "Happy Days"?

Answer 1

Yes they where, there is no doubt that the 1950s is Americas overall best decade for growth,families and income. with the end of WWII , the us closed the book on 15 years od rations, the depression, war and grwoth in industry and housing. the returning GI's where determined as never before to build a better country, for there families. masssive housing project created suburbia , television was introduced to the masses, cars where no longer utilitarian only, they had chrome, and went faster. the Interstate system was started, Americans for the first time where taking vacations, her before that was limited to the upper classes, Amusment parks flourished, and fast food got it' start. The family was the important stable not the individual. politics where not ensnared with social and moral issues, Colleges for the first time where opening there door to the middle class in a big way, washers and dryers freed up the housewives day, as they said, they melted down the planes, tanks and bombs after the war, and make appliances to make life easier at home. thing florished and grew, yes there where problems brewing on the horizon, but about 1948-1964 things where indeed golden over all, then came the troubled sixities, the phoney seventies, the selfish eighties, the politcally correct nineties and now the arguing 2000's . where due for some good years again I think.

Answer 2

Happy Days 1950s

Answer 3

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina.

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Answer 4

Certainly not - "Sappy Days", as we used to call it, is a whitewashed version of America in the 1950s. 'Forrest Gump' was not the 1960s, and 'That 70s Show' was not the 70s either. Beware of such watered-down imitations that do little justice to the people who lived during those times.

Answer 5

They look good in a rearview mirror. I was a child in the 1950s and I don't recall things being happy and carefree, like they are presnted in "Happy Days."

There was a lot of worry that the Russians were going to attack us with atomic bombs any day. There were bomb drills in schools and people constructed bomb shelters in their basements.

I recall it as a very tense time in which people tried to pretend to be happier than they were.

Answer 6

While nothing is as it is portrayed on TV, yes in many ways it was.

Some here are doing the usual "only for white males" garbage, some of which is downright silly (blacks didn't have the vote??)

but it was a much better time for all then the years before. The second world war was over, economy was booming, jobs were a plenty, for all races. and when there is work for all, everyone is better off.

Answer 7

It was for me. We were dirt poor but none the less we were happy. There were many problems I dont deny that. Many of the worries of today did not exist. The problems of the day in the fifties were nothing like the problems of today. I had A happy childhood. Had nothing but shared it with any one that was in need. No locked doors. No drugs like today. Less stress. No rat race. What you see today in the movies and TV is nothing like the fifties what so ever. Most are written by people that were not even born in th fifies..They just read and guess what it was like.

Answer 8

The "Red Scare" was always there but few people built fallout shelters.

The 50s were "Happy Days" for the majority of the population but not for the minorities.

Answer 9

in some respects they were. i grew up in the midwest tho, and it was different as opposed to more progressive regions. i read some of the other answers, and i remember all us kids laughing at the bomb shelters in the basement. thats when i came to the realization that adults were stupid. the entire country is leveled, but we will be ok. we have a bomb shelter. how can you take things seriously after that?

Answer 10

We were in the Red Scare, so I didn't think those days were happy. We were more fearful of communism.