Hell, I didn't even exist back then! 
Mr. SmartyPants says: "Your mother's ovum might well have existed during that time, though (i.e., your DNA was floating around, even though you as you had yet to be created). The ovum that created one half of the genetic me existed since 1942, though I wasn't born until 1967."
It looked like a pretty cool decade though! 
I like a lot of the furniture and interior design of the decade, and some of the women's fashions were interesting, not to mention some of those cool retro behemoth cars, but on the whole the 50's strike me as pretty horrid both politically and socially.
