How did americans live in the 1950s?

Answer 1

Pretty much the same as now, except mostly in smaller houses, and with fewer cars and less driving, and with fewer electric appliances and electronic gizmos cluttering up their lives. Life is possible without computers, tivos, dvds, ipods, xboxes, cellphones, blackberries and GPS. And believe it or not, it is not necessarily less pleasant.

Answer 2

not quite like the cleavers. we lived nice...but one of my friends had a drunk for a dad, they didn't live nice.
we lived nice because my drunk grandpaw lived several states away, and my drunk father lived several states away and mom married a sober kind gentle man. eisenhower and kennedy ... though there was a drunken senator from minnesota, mccarthey, who made trouble for a spell, he was eventually exposed as a bully and a drunk...same needs to be done for some present leaders.
i remember the 1950s...going to grade school and hating school, loving the girls in the neighborhood, though (i was young but a bit randy)
riding my bicycle all over town with my friends.
rabbit hunting with my .22 (with my friends or alone, i knew to be careful with the thing).
the catholic girl that lived next door, the presbyterian girl that lived down the street and was the mayors daughter, the coaches daughter up the street, the pretty red haired girl over a block....
going to the museum of natural history and geology at the university and watching dr. knight build his tyranasauraus rex out of copper and steel, went to school with his grandson. fascinating, watching that old man weld all that copper together and form that dinosaur...amazing artist that old man was, not just a brilliant geologist.
my friend, Pijendeh, from pakistan, he was a Sikh and wore a turban and he had to be 7 feet tall, taught me how to skip rocks on water, and taught me a peaceful way if i would ever listen.(i was only 3 or 4 then, not much of an ear, though amazingly some of his words come back now.)
there was no place safer than on his shoulders when we walked across the campus of the university, and i could see the ends of the earth from there it seemed.
anyway that is how this american lived in the 1950's

Answer 3

I remember very little about the 50's Buddy Holly came to Louisville in 1957 and I couldn't go because I was 2 , I remember in 1962 we moved into a big house and I thought it was out ragious when I found out my MOM and DAD paid $10,000 for this place there house payment was $50.00 a month Milk in school was 2cents, There was no treat of American becoming terrorist.. JFK was shot and they took cartoons off that day,
The 50's had to be even more simpler than that,,I remember my dad had a 55 Desoto Car , My mom didn't work she didn't have to, My Dads $100 a week was enuff, we ate great 4 kids,,Oh for those days again.

Answer 4

One car, mom and dad, four kids, house about 1300 square feet. Had a large yard with an equally large garden. Home canned foods, picked berries, wild asparagus, morels. Hunted pheasants, squirrels, rabbits. Had the usually dog and cat. Went fishing and had family picnics.

Family gatherings and the annual re-union. No air conditioning, no TV until I was five and then it was a funny looking older one with a screen about 14 inches wide but about 5 inches high. Black and white of course. Bedtime at 8pm irregardless. Cartoons of Heckle and Jeckle, Frazier Thomas and Garfield Goose, Saturday night at the movies. ( Only got 5 channels) During the day Saturday, Dad would cook burgers and that's the day we could have pop to drink. Then we'd watch the Bowery Boys, Tarzan or Charlie Chan and sometimes Sherlock Holmes movies.

Now you got me going but it will give me pleasant thoughts all night. Makes me miss Dad. He died when I was 11 so I really miss those things he did with us.But thanks for getting me to go down memory lane.

Answer 5

dad worked mom stayed at home.did not hear much about drugs.kids did not shoot one another. it was a great time

Answer 6

Like Beaver Cleaver and his family.