Happy+Days???

Were the 1950's really Happy Days?

__Yes, they were...__
 * Eisenhower increased minimun wages, and worked to expand New Deal programs, like Social Security.
 * People were more economically secure, so they got married more and started more families. There was a huge baby boom..."wink" "wink"
 * There was a huge economic boom as the suburbs grew, car sales exploded, movie theaters, restaurants and shopping centers popped up everywhere.
 * The "American Dream" was becoming a reality, as people were happy to conform and live in the suburbs.
 * New television shows started and were a great hit, also ROCK N' ROLL hit the stage! new rockers were everywhere, but Elvis Presly was the hippest of the hip.
 * New vaccines defeated the fear of diseases like polio, that sometimes paralysed people for life.

__No, they were awful...__
 * As more and more people moved to the suburbs, the citizens who could not move there were left with not enough money to pay taxes, and therefore public services like garbage collection, started to disappear.
 * There was a huge fear of communism and the threat of nuclear attack. This lead to hysteria and discrimination against anybody who was a possible communist.
 * Viral diseases like polio spread in horrible epidemics that lead to fear within the country. But eventually, vaccines were made to stop these bio-hazards.