Slab,

For the sake of your curiosity, I don't remember this being any or much more true then than now:

Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.

Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.

We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios. --- the early seeds of rock and roll were being sown very well in the 1950's, so while I remember pre-rock, rock was definitely the foundation of my generation.

The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.... --- not true, except maybe for the socially retarded.

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon. --- have to be a lot older than 61 for that to be true. More like 81 years old.

And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby. --- also flat out false. Gals who got knocked up in high school dropped out for a year or more and went to a home for "unwed mothers." The gal was shamed and the guy who knocked her up was congratulated, not really something to be proud of as a better time.

Sg