[wideawake]

And the bad things about the ‘50s really were just a continuation of the bad things about the ‘30s.

[Clemenza]

Hell, we can go back farther and say that the cultural revolution of the 1920s was put on hold by the privation of the 1930s and WWII.

The funny thing is, there was more open prostitution in my grandparents time than there has been since the end of WWII, to say nothing of illegal gambling, which was HUGE in urban areas back in the 1920s-1940s.