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After W.W. II 16million troops needed to be demobilized. The G.I. Bill was designed to ease the transition from Military to civilian life. It provided veterans with financial aid for college, buying a house, and or starting a small business, It allowed many veterans to turn the productive energy into $ "... had it not been for the GI Bill, I would not have been able to attend college." – Joe Sanford Hinshaw, Class of 1951

Suburbia = Residential Areas outside major cities Levittown Life -Cookie cutter homes that were put together assembly line style. - A new Levitt home was built every 15minutes -.First 2 Levitt communities were Long Island,and suburban Philadelphia Why escape the crime and color of the city Believed to be a step up in life Homes became very affordable through the G.I. Bill and towns like Levittown Levittown

Between the years of 1940 and 1960 one baby was born every 7 seconds !!!! A great economy + a good living environment + Better medical technology = larger families The nation population increased by 19 million in the 1940 ’ s and 30 million in the 1950 ’ s

-I Love Lucy Conveyor BeltConveyor Belt -Vitamin girlVitamin girl

The Howdy Doody Show was one of the first and easily the most popular children's television show in the 1950s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination, and business realities associated with early television. While Howdy and his friends entertained American children, they also sold television sets to American parents and demonstrated the potential of the new medium to advertisers

One of the most popular series in television history, Leave It to Beaver stood out from the flock during TV's golden age. While most Beaver contemporaries, like The Donna Reed Show and The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, were star- driven vehicles in which the kids were merely supporting players, In Leave It to Beaver, the action centered on the Cleaver boys; seven year Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his 12-year-old brother Wally

the impact of American Bandstand should not be underrated. Even if the show diffused some of the more raucous elements of rock 'n' roll music, it helped to solidify the growing youth culture which centered around this phenomenon. But the show was important in another way as well. Once Clark took over the helm of Bandstand in 1956, he insisted on racially integrating the show, since much of the music was performed by black recording artists.

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