50s USA looks so aesthetic. Is is really great place to live?
50s USA looks so aesthetic. Is is really great place to live?
Sebastian Martin
Austin Myers
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Jason Thompson
sure
Easton Anderson
>Is
Was
Today the same place is probably a ghetto with mexican criminals and drug addcits
Colton Miller
If you were a WASP, definitely
Henry Jones
I'd like being an abusive functional alcoholic 50s US cop. Beating niggers by day, wife and children by night.
John Anderson
It is kinda weird how in 3 decades, Americans became people who considered niggers as niggers to nigger-lovers.
Brayden Clark
I love you
Oliver Russell
Niggers had jobs at that time, now they just rob ppl on the streets.
Jaxson White
>had jobs
>great depression
lad
Joseph Sanchez
>great depression
>50s
Gabriel Wright
What depression in post-WW2 US?
Dominic Nelson
Oh whoops, thought that pic was from the great depression
Owen Brooks
what the fuck went wrong
Oliver Cook
Hold on boys I was talking about the picture, it's from the great depression
Levi Parker
What town is this? Would like to see what it's like today.
Liam Ross
Only if you were White
Josiah Cruz
unironically directed cultural manipulation
Caleb Price
Not even, you had to have majority Anglo Saxon ancestry, a Biblical name, and practiced Protestantism
Ian Cook
That picture is not from the 30's you retard.
Jonathan Brooks
The 1950s actually had more spartan living standards than is generally believed--recovery from the Depression was slow. By the 60s, things were booming in part because Europe had completed recovery from WWII and trans-Atlantic trade was fully rehabilitated.
Gavin Mitchell
If you were white or looked white, middle class, a post GI, and weren't some kind of weirdo
then 50s America was probably really nice
probably was pretty boring though. If I had lived during the 50s I'd probably go climb mountains to stave off boredom
Noah Hernandez
Then why you post great depression picture in 50s thread?
Jackson Miller
Yes it is u knobhead 1937 (I think at least)
You replied to that picture, why not reply to the OP thread in general if you weren't talking about the pic?
Luis Martinez
the 1950s weren't the 1890s, there were plenty of rat bastard catholic irish-italian mutts wandering around suburban communities
Evan Morris
That poster was used in 50s to represent American values over "wrong" socialists values
Easton Taylor
It's from the Depression--the car in the poster is 1930s, not '50s.
Brody Roberts
dumb ivan twat
Henry Perez
It's also just a very famous photo, there's a lot written about it if people want to look into it
Jose Thomas
>The dog doesn't have a gun
You disappoint me
Brayden Robinson
The cars are clearly from the 50s, stop
Jaxon Stewart
>50s USA looks so aesthetic. Is is really great place to live?
It's just kodachrome.
Landon Flores
Matthew Sanders
Juden
Anthony Sanchez
Harvard pointheads in the government actually believed Khrushchev's boast that the USSR would overtake America by 1980. The inherent failures in a command economy never occurred to these guys and anyway, the '50s was a time when centralized government was in fashion. They also complained that Americans were lazy and materialistic and we needed more nuclear power plants and submarines instead of TVs and cars with tail fins. In a 1959 interview, Admiral Hyman Rickover complained that the American school system was shoddy and we should instead copy the Swiss system and have longer school years.
John Bailey
>nuclear fucking everything
Yes
Jayden Moore
>50s USA looks so aesthetic. Is is really great place to live?
Supposedly but I wasn't alive then. You could support a family as middle class with only a high school degree. You could be a dropout and still support a family but at a lower class level. A lot of neighborhoods were safer and not locking your door and leaving the keys in the visor wasn't a meme. On the other hand kids had to practice nuclear drills for when Ivan lost his mind.
Connor Johnson
No.
Colton Bell
It still looks like a nice town.
William Young
>If you were a WASP, definitely
If you were anything remotely white and not a communist it was.
Elijah Sanders
>Not even, you had to have majority Anglo Saxon ancestry, a Biblical name, and practiced Protestantism
That must explain why my father's ethnic German/Scottish/Irish family was upper middle class. Because they were Anglos.
My mother's father was a h.s. dropout and WW2 vet whose parents were Polish immigrants (his father actually had hidden Jewish roots) and still managed to be at least be working class with a house and new cars. They'd be fucked these days.
Jose Nguyen
>It's just kodachrome.
>t. Politburo
Thomas Reyes
Wyatt Adams
It was the pre-rapeugees Scandinavia of the time
Christian Howard
My grandfather came back from Korea and the only jobs he could get were low wage factory ones--it was another 7-8 years before the good aerospace industry jobs opened up.
Xavier Brooks
That was in the 1930s.
Blake Garcia
They obviously didn't have things like cell phones or 21st century medical care, but considering what the capabilities of the time were, we had a really high standard of living between 1945-1974 or so. Wages were much higher and unionization was much stronger. Consumer power was strong so an average working man working at a factory could afford a car, house in the suburbs, consumer gadgets like TV and radio, and the basics for supporting a family.
Justin Gutierrez
Irish and Italian people were fairly integrated at the time. Housing contracts still could segregate Protestants from Catholics though.
Tyler Perez
Not really, it was mostly because the US controlled most of the world's manufacturing for about 20-25 years after WWII. And as I noted, .
Did you know that real GDP growth in the 50s averaged only 2% a year and there were three recessions? (1953-54, 1958, and 1960).
Joseph Thompson
>Bob's Army store changed into Bob's Outdoor
Hmm.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Many neighborhoods until the late 60s forbade blacks and Jews from living in them and entertainers who had overly Jewish or Eastern European-sounding names had to Anglicize them.
Lucas Murphy
Fucking hell. One thing they kept unchanged all these years was the Cola billboard.
John Carter
Small towns in flyover country change very slowly with the times.
Jace Edwards
I assume the wife and dog just don't open carry.
Liam Cox
2 major recessions, standard of living was shit compared to today, lead in everything, it was not a good time.
Nathaniel Johnson
Depending on where you lived, the 30's though the early 90's sucked. The 90's things got better for a while than turned to shit again in '08. Things have gotten a little better.
t. East KY escapee
Jackson Flores
>things look better on the silver screen
Who would have thought.
Jose Fisher
that is photoshopped
also, the original photo is from relief given to a block of homes after a fire
Jaxon Stewart
(((They)))
Nicholas Collins
Muh military complex.
Xavier Williams
America was beautiful before niggers and Mexicans destroyed it.
Evan Richardson
Depends. If you were:
>non-white
>poor
>female (HUGE addiction to mental health medications because they were trapped as homemakers with little to do)
>gay
>southern
>appalacian
>didn't want to work in a factory all day but couldn't afford a higher education
>rural
>wanted a life with more meaning than slaving away in a factory and having a wife with the mental age of a child
Then it was pretty shit. The 50's was good for 'simple living' types who were born into areas with jobs, but that's about it.
Carter Perez
JAJAJAJAJ fuck you
Brody Flores
America was beautiful before wewuzzing NEETs started to destroy it.
Jonathan Carter
Europe rebuilt itself, Asian countries also grew manufacturing. If you wanted it to be the 50s-60s ways all the way, America should have had constant proxy Wars throughout Europe and Asia, just enough to level the manufacturing but stable enough for wageslavery.