What was daily life like in the 50's?

What was daily life like in the 50's?
What would you do in your free time, since there were no computers, would you just waste your time watching TV? Did people read more books because it was one of the only forms of entertainment they had?

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I'm not sure if it is accurate to say that people read more. Literacy rates in general were much lower back then. It might be accurate, however, to say that people who could read, did read more often. Especially women, because they didn't have jobs back then so they had to have filled up their day somehow.

TVs were only owned by the rich, so there was a lot more reading, sports, card games, etc. going on.

People were more social. And there was a lot more busy work to do around town because there was no internet. You had to go to the post office and bank quite often, for example.

Getting drunk in bars and meeting with friends.

But you still have to do that now.

>TVs were only owned by the rich
What kind of memery is this, the 50's was when TV got cheap enough everyone (who wasn't
poverty level) could afford one.

Even the 50s was degenerate and soulless compared to earlier times, like the Victorian/Edwardian eras, or the Antebellum. I don't know why people fixate on the 50s so much.

Literacy rates were not that low, most developed countries had literacy rates of atleast 90%+

Enjoying the greatest god damn nation in history while enjoying it's greatest time as of yet

go surfing

cruise around town in your t bird

TV's were still relatively expensive, bu yes, they did fall dramatically in price.

I'm not just talking about America here, i'm also talking about Britan. Which is the greatest nation btw.
Rule Britannia!

>tv's became cheap right before the "moon landing" happened

hmmm really made me think

mail order an antitank rifle

buy machine guns

un-molested war bringbacks being given out for bargain basement prices

I too remember how we landed on the moon in 1953.
Seriously though fuck whoever made that x axis.

But now we have social networks and build socialism.

I think often enough, people make this ridiculously shitty graphs to confuse the reader to push some kind of agenda ("only trust a statistic you faked yourself"). On the other hand, stupidity is most often the answer, it might have been some shitty graphical designer, getting some numbers by researchers, and thought that it "looked really rad". Who knows?

It was bombed to shit and the Marshall plan was helping them out. They weren't too depressed though.

It was less like Happy Days and more like Outsiders

Oh boy the 50s
>wake up at sunrise to my roosters cock-a-doodle-doo, no alarm clocks.
>put on my blue jeans and leather jacket, smear bacon grease in my hair
>oh boy breakfast the most important meal of the day! Mom serves me up a plate of unfiltered cigarettes, my favorite!
>meet up withy friends and go beat up the local nigger, and then the local kike
>pick up diane
>we go suck on chili dogs outside the tasty freeze

I dunno why this made me laugh so hard

For one thing, everyone was in much better shape. This is because they ate actual food cooked by their mom or wife and kids actually played outside.

You know, the kids not affected by polio anyway. And the whole thing was kind of a wash what with the rampant smoking, asbestos, amphetamine "diet pills", and a large number of people who still didn't believe in vaccines. "But we still have that last one," I hear you say. Not like they did in the '50s. Eradicating polio was a bitch of a problem due to scientific ignorance.

The only thing I would've liked in the 50s is nerdom. It was the golden age of sci-fi, and pic related was still alive and exciting. I will always regret being born too late to meet this unrelenting genius of an author.

a quick google says that a news website had that specific data, so it seems like someone just made a graph out of it without thinking
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>hurr it was all horrible because they didnt have our current accumulated knowledge

just shut the fuck up you brainlet imbecile.

Good job user, you really showed him

Lynch mobs
McCarthyism
The near death of free political thought
Draconian gun control
Conformism
Blacklists
Book banning
Censorship

If one were to graph general freedom in America, there would be a remarkable dip in the late 40s that would last until the late 50s. As a proud, patriotic, freedom loving American, I say that the 1950s was a terrible time. Today, I can say what I want, read what I want, be what I want with only myself as the limit, and I can carry a loaded gun in public while doing it. The type of people who today bowlderize and idolize the 1950s would've hated it there.

You're thinking of the 20s. Unrestricted machine gun purchases ended in the 30s. The 50s was a time of unparalleled gun control when state laws swept the nation banning the carrying of guns. The era of CCW laws that we currently enjoy didn't start until the 80s.

.gif related. Note that at the start of the timeline, even states like Texas and Arizona were no issue, and only Vermont has always maintained what we now call "constitutional carry".