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In the 50s it was a wonderful time to be a child. Born after the war and brought up in an age of wealth, most boys and girls enjoyed the 1950s to the fullest. Especially in the new suburban neighborhoods filled with young families, the sounds of playing children filled the air. Girls for the most part loved jacks, hopscotch, and jumping rope to the little chants of “Teddy bear, teddy bear,” or “Icka backa, soda cracker.” Boys played cowboys and Indians, or transformed themselves into space men who fought in fierce space battles. For parents who had grown up in the Great Depression years, even the noisiest fun was sweet music to their ears. Baby Boom Baby boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964. Which means in this year of 2003 baby boomers are from the ages of 39 and 57. There are about 76 million boomers in the United States. This is 29% of the United States population. In Canada Baby Boomers are known as Boomies (there are 6 million baby boomers there.) The term is used to define the "boom" in births after World War II. The 1960s is the decade that defined the boomers. The music, events, and the social changes made a permanent impression on us. There were so many changes in the boomer decades that how old you were during the decades greatly affected how you turned out. The Suburbs Levittown was the first suburb to be built and was built in the 50s decade. Levittown was built by William Levitt using the most up-to-date building methods. Levittown was originally called Island Trees. It offered affordable housing to returning GIs and their families, in the form of small, single-family houses.
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