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What I remember most about the 1950s was the atom bomb scare and how bomb shelters were being built everywhere by those who could afford them. The rest of us just wet the bed having nightmares about blowing up! heheh

O! and about James Dean (I loved movies)
And of course Elvis.....

What are your fondest 50s memories?

1950's DECADE'S NOTABLE EVENTS:

Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food
restaurant chain.

First riot at an Elvis Presley concert takes
place in Jacksonville, FL

"The $64,000 Question" the popular US
television game show starts

James Dean’s stars in the movie East of Eden
James Dean killed in car accident near
Cholame, California

First Guinness Book of World Records Published

"The Mickey Mouse Club" debuts on ABC

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a
public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

The American Federation of Labor and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations merge
making the new AFL-CIO an organization
with 15 million union members.

Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio

Bomb shelter plans, like the government
pamphlet "You Can Survive", become
widely available

Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth
and fiftieth states.

"Boomers" Group

Janeybird 6 Apr 24
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I hear millennials whine about the pressure of growing up with no hope in a future because of climate change. Try the fear of being obliterated by a nuke!!

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The fifties were great years for being a child. That wonderful phrase every parent would utter: "If you're bored I'll find something for you to do. There are plenty of weeds to pull in the yard." Can't say I pulled many weeds. We had a lot of freedom to do and to be and to explore. Lay in the grass on a summer's night and try to find all the constellations, marvel that someday we might travel into outer space.

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I was not born till 69, but talk was still going on of many thing's mentions that even I can remember

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