The Decade You Were Born: The '50s

If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century - the rise of the middle class - and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own... a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters. If you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.