# Is it perfectly possible to live like people did in the 50’s and 60’s **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 11, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-perfectly-possible-to-live-like-people-did-in-the-50-s-and-60-s/979603 "2023-02-11T01:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-perfectly-possible-to-live-like-people-did-in-the-50-s-and-60-s/979603/45 "2023-02-12T08:40:42Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > We didn’t go to movies. We didn’t go out to anything. Yes, we did have a television. I got a color tv later. In the 1980s. I grew up, as I said, in a struggling working-class family in a rural area. We actually got a television in 1950, I think. This made us one of the earlier people to get a television in our own home among Americans. There were televisions in some bars and restaurants before then, I think. After 1950, Americans quickly began buying televisions and the clear majority had them by 1960. I think we got a color television in the mid-1960s. Up to the point that I graduated from high school in 1970, I only went to movies a few times a year. It was too expensive for all our family to go to one any more often than that, since we had to drive a ways for it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-perfectly-possible-to-live-like-people-did-in-the-50-s-and-60-s/979603)._