"Back in the days"

If I could go back in time, I would go visit the 50’s. The reason I would go to the 50’s is because there was a big change. The 1950’s was an era of great optimism and prosperity. It also had a lot of conflicts, but there are many things I love about this time. One thing I enjoy is watching movies and in the 1950’s there movies were actually interesting. Even though they were considered “old” in our eyes, it was interesting seeing how they did things in film. Also, the films back then were extremely popular and were usually considered as the best. Taking American Film, it gave me a lot of knowledge. It enabled me to look at a movie by looking deeper into it such as the details, etc. Another thing about the 1950’s that I liked was the different inventions that came out. Today we would look at those and think “wow” because to us now, that stuff isn’t anything big compared to what it was back then. They had no computers and so much more. The life back then was completely different. In my opinion, the way teenagers and adults are today, they wouldn’t be able to survive in the 1950’s. Today a lot of people rely mostly on communication which goes hand-in-hand with technology. Back then, they had some technology but not a lot. The technology they had wasn’t nearly close as advanced as it is now. Some important things that went on in the 1950’s was the Immigration and Nationalization Act of 1952 where racial barriers were removed to become a U.S. citizen, racial segregation was ruled unconstitutional in public schools, Rosa Park refused to give up her seat during this time, a vaccine for polio was developed, and the first U.S. satellite successfully orbited the earth. The music that was extremely popular back then consisted of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, etc. The music people listened to back then, still to this day is popularly played or popularly known. People don’t realize what type of effect the time has had on us and how much change it has caused. The 1950’s was more than just some period in the past.  Historians use the word “boom” for many things to describe this period. The booming prosperity helped create a widespread sense of stability and contentment. If I could, I easily would go back and visit the 1950’s because I just love the type of atmosphere people got to live in. The genre of film and music, along with the different inventions and important life changes, would all just be breathtaking to experience. Nothing can ever compare to the way life was in the past and it’s crazy to think about how much has changed from now and then. To many it was all considered “back in the days” or “back then” but really, it’s the same life, just a different type of life due to all that’s happened between now and then. The change will forever amaze me.