OH+Reflection

=Life in the Fifties Interview Reflection= For some reason the 50s have always fascinated me. I don't know if it is the way the time is portrayed in movies, or the way my grandparents always talk about it, but something has kept it sitting in the back of my head, waiting for an opportunity for me to find out what it was all about. Every time I'm with my grandma she makes a comment about the 50s and how great they were. After researching the topic, I realized how much stuff was going on and how happy it all sounded. However, there was a war in Korea and segregation going on too. I was interested to hear what my grandma had to say about them. When she said that African Americans were barely seen by her in the fifties, I was not totally shocked, but I was surprised to hear that she never really thought about segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Blacks just simply were not there. Also, she mentioned the war in Korea, but it seemed by her response that nobody was very concerned. People were living simple lives. They were not trying to get rich, but they did want to go to college, get married, live in a house, have three kids, and live happily ever after. I also loved when she told me what she thought of the fashion statements. She said the style was "awful." I for one love the way girls and boys dressed in the fifties. Girls were in their cute poodle skirts and socks, it just sounds adorable! But I don't think I could deal with packing three suitcases for my petticoats or having my skirt fly up when I sit down. But aside from some minor problems, I maintain that the fifties were "happy days." They were simple, quaint, and they sound like my kind of time.