A lot has changed in the last 60 years ... and that's probably for the best.
The Cold War is over, schools are no longer segregated and women have improved their lot in society.
While we can't produce a time machine, YouTube offers a similar experience. Watching the videos in the gallery above, you'll travel back to an era in which women were treated as property, Communists were hunted by the U.S. government and homosexuality was considered a mental illness.
Still keen on time travel? We'll let you reconsider. Besides, you'd have to give up your iPhone and Netflix. Yeah, we don't really want to go back, either.