Or did it? Enter "I Love Lucy" - television's first look at the bored American housewife - with a class comedy sketch about modern mechanization in a chocolate factory.
Big hits included "Leave it to Beaver", "The Donna Reed Show", "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best" that chronicled the sweet wholesomeness of the 'typical' American family.Īt the end of the day, living in a white-picket fence house serving Swanson's TV dinners awaited in the suburbs. Meanwhile, a new invention called television was replacing the radio as a living room fixture in homes across the land. Underneath the innocent "Happy Days" decade lay the dark underbelly of nuclear war, and the fear of communists (they were everywhere) as well as beatniks, teen rebels and a new genre of music called rock 'n roll that promised to end Western civilization as we knew it! The beginning of the decade saw the US take off as a world super power, still testing its wings.īy the end of the decade, the Cold War was at its height as President Eisenhower warned about the dangers of a US military-industrial complex.
With America a new world leader following World War II, the 1950's saw returning GI's finding jobs at booming industries.
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