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The Fabulous Fifties. Some may call it the “fabulous fifties,” but others
call it a time of “tensions and insecurities.” Several ...
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people who endured hard lives en-joyed good times” (Fabulous Decade 104 ...
... come. The Beatles were “born” in Liverpool, England in the late nineteen
fifties. John Lennon ... band. The result was fabulous. The band ...
... The semi-fabulous freak brothers, Fonda Wyatt and Hopper Billy in "Easy Rider ...
teen-angel badass, bad-angst full throttle afterburner of the Fab Fifties, gave ...
... one of Warhol's commercial art assistants in the late fifties — it was ... said that
Warhol responded by exclaiming: "Oh that sounds fabulous." According to Carey ...
Submitted by alexandra2004789 on April 5, 2005
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Some may call it the “fabulous fifties,” but others call it a time of “tensions and insecurities.” Several people think back on the fifties and remember them as the “good old days,” while others think of it as a time of crisis and terror. Although Americans were faced with many hardships throughout the fifties, I think that the positive aspects such as the new technologies, growing economy, higher focus on education, and growing job opportunities of the era outnumber the negative aspects, such as racism that African Americans faced, and the changing roles of women, making the fifties an overall “happy” period in American history.
The fifties are characterized as a watershed period, due to the unparallel growth and change that America socially and economically experienced after WWII. In the years during the War and the Depression there was high employment, low inflation and a yearning for normalcy, and stability in many Americans lives. The fifties changed all of this providing the American culture with prosperity by way of network television, air conditioning, computers, jet travel, a national highway system, chain hotels, and franchised fast food that made businesses boom.
The fifties are also characterized as a golden age when everything was simple and innocent. People had peace and prosperity due to the war ending, and they expressed their feelings of excitement and anticipation through their clothing with men dressing in suits and hats, and women in dresses, stockings and heels, and by going out dancing to big bands downtown, and experimenting with the new technologies and organizations of the time.
With World War II bringing thousands of men back to America seeking new lives and opportunities, the US experienced an economic expansion like it had never seen before. During the middle of the twentieth century wages increased 22%, family income went up from $3,000 to $5,400, and the Gross National Product...
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