The fifties - a time when America was a much happier country

[KIMBER45]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=sDc0ID6PJeg&feature=youtu.be

[Swift One]

I would have loved to be a young man in the 50s.  Would have ewent straight to AK.

[Conan The Librarian]

I would not want to go back to that time.

[BUGEYE]

I would not want to go back to that time.

I loved that time.   the hunting, fishing, music, everything about it.

[JonnyReb]

 I was 20 years to late to see the 50's but I have to say that my guns from the 50's, have a certain character that later guns don't seem to have. Deeper blueing, the prettiest walnut and they're solid as a rock. The cars from that era are pretty innovative too, must have been one of the finest times in recent American history.  J

[guzzijohn]

The 50s were only good if you were a white male. Pretty much sucked for everyone else.
GuzziJohn

[BUGEYE]

The 50s were only good if you were a white male. Pretty much sucked for everyone else.
GuzziJohn

I attended a white high school.  the black high school had a hot lunch program and a band which we did not have.  on the week-end us white boys would meet some black boys at their school and play basketball.  their school was open and ours was not.  no problems....
my little brother took music lessons from the black band leader.  a black lady baked the wedding cake for my first marriage.  we had two cops, one of them black.  the black cop was called Turkey Clark, and if he caught a kid doing meaness, black or white, he took'em home and let the daddies beat the snot out of them.  ah, for the good old days...

[BUGEYE]

I didn't segregate the schools.  that happened way before my time. I never said blacks didn't have it bad.  I only related how people got along at that time and that place.
Eisenhower (a white man) did his best to get blacks to get an education and take their place in an integrated society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/opinion/12nichols.html?_r=0

If things had been allowed to develop more slowly as Eisenhower (a white guy) envisioned, maybe we wouldn't have the race problems that we do.  Jesse Jackson and them boys have done more harm that good in race relations.

[magooch]

I grew up in the Fifties and our schools were not segregated.  Dumycrats were nothing like they are now days--they were almost normal--except in the South where they wore white sheets and burned crosses.  Queers and other perverts were deep in the closet and drugs were something that only a doctor's prescription could obtain.
Some of the things we did back then would get you in deep trouble now days, but on the other hand, some of the things that are tolerated these days would have gotten you dead back then.
Would I want to go back to the Fifties?  Politically and morality wise,  you bet I would. 

[guzzijohn]

Quote from BUGEYE:
"If things had been allowed to develop more slowly as Eisenhower (a white guy) envisioned, maybe we wouldn't have the race problems that we do. "


For once you may have a valid point.
GuzziJohn

[Conan The Librarian]

If you want some cool nostalgia, go to a web site called retronaut. Absolutely fascinating. Warning: If you go there, be prepared to waste about three hours reading and looking at the pictures. I've recommended it to friends and they said something like "dang you! I wasted three hours at that site." I did too. But it was worth it. Save it for an evening when you want to veg out.