Were+the+1950s+Really+Happy+Days?+5.22.12

What's buzzin', cousin? The 50s are fat city! Think about rock n' roll! Electric instruments, great rhythms, fun for dancing - teenagers love it. We've got Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard!
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That's the word from the bird! And we have more entertainment because of the new fangled television. We can watch quiz shows, family shows, and keep up with rock and roll on American Bandstand . And we can buy television stuff in the stores. Like my cool Davy Crockett hat?

It sure is boss. But you want to know something that isn't? The poverty that is plaguing many in our nation. The economy may be booming, but farmers and farmworkers are suffering in rural areas, as are coal miners. And I sure wouldn't want to live in the inner cities - those ghettos are becoming islands of poverty, mostly for minorities .

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 * We’re all pretty scared about the Reds, we’re living in constant fear of an A-Bomb being dropped. There are bomb drills pretty often.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After living through WWII, we know how scary war and nuclear warfare can be, with the Arms race, we don’t want any more fighting.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Urban Poverty
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Farmers are struggling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Red Scare


 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__POSITIVE__ ** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The car is evolving
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">economy is booming!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Game show radio, tv, economy New disease cures and preventions are making it easier to be healthy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interstate system Highway was created and cars were transformed
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a baby boom was when soliders came back from the war and had kids with their wives
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clothing was changing as well as the language, they created other slang language.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am cookin’ in the 50s! My family has a TV set and a car, I can keep up with all my favorite shows and cruise around with my friends! **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My family can go visit my cousins all the way over in Detroit real quick thanks to the Interstate highway! **