The Fifties & Sixties

My early photo experience…

“This day in History… “TheHindenburg disaster 1937”

I saw this photograph in a real estate office window when I was about 7-8 years old during the early fifties. They would change the photos daily. I was always intrigued by the events they introduced to me on my way home from school. I would go home and read the story in my Encyclopedia Britannica.

Everything was black and white in those days.

People were moving to the suburbs and purchasing houses and cars.

WW War 11 was over and the surviving soldiers returned to their loved ones.” I like Ike” meant a new world to the Americans. A path to prosperity was a wish for many. Some chose college and many went to work in the factories producing new cars and tv sets.

The “Baby Boomers” were born. The country was happy.

Until…

A huge mushroom cloud rises above Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands July 25, 1946 following an atomic test blast, part of the U.S. military’s “Operation Crossroads.” The dark spots in the foreground are ships that were placed near the blast site to test what an atom bomb would do to a fleet of warships. (AP Photo)

The Photos in the insurance window became a little more ominous from abroad and in our country.

A President is assassinated…

The People march for their civil rights

The 60’s end in Vietnam

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