Originally Posted by
chasm54
I was born in the fifties, so as a decade it has a lot to recommend it. Your comment is extremely North America-centric, though. In Western Europe most of the 1950s was spent recovering from the destruction wrought by WWII. In the UK, various foodstuffs were still rationed until the mid-fifties. Not entirely "prosperous and fun".
I was born in the fifties also.
My statement was very American-centric in retrospect. We were living large here at the time. My apologies, I should have remembered that Europe was still suffering some...