The Hard Life of Teenagers

It is said that since of the booming economy, parents could now help their children achieve more than they themselves had.

Parents encouraged their teenagers to finish highschool and paid the way for them to attend college.

Many teens during this time period had lots of freedom and were the sneakiest out of all of the generations.

Many of them obtained cars from either their hard earned money or from their parents.

They used these cars to be sneaky and to drive where there was no witnesses and have a make out session and sometimes escalated to intimacy.

Many of these students during the 1950's had house parties and the purpose was to make out, use drugs, and drink to have fun.

Some slang words that they used were cruisin' for a bruisin', knuckle sandwhich, daddy-O, burn rubber, party pooper, and cool cat.

The 50's for teenagers were so much fun compared to others and lucky as well as it was almost a perfect snapshot of a certain segment of American Society at a particular moment in the nation's history.

These teens would go into job they choose and are often able to keep their money as well.

Although they were the luckiest generation, they were not spoiled either.

1950's teenagers looked secure, confident, independent, modest, beautiful/handsome, and presentable.

I saw this one article where this 16 year old boy was an electrician who was still in high school and he picked up a good pay doing part-time repair jobs.

High schoolers had their own parking lot with the cars they acquired and could could dance freely in gyms.

A young investor named David Lenske who was seventeen years old bought four shares of A.T.&T., talked with a banker.

They had many unlimited opportunities and had more freedom compared to teenagers today.

Many students could drink and smoke easily in the sense when it came from stores as today you have to be 22 years old to buy a alcohol at the store.

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