I got a chuckle out of this. Compared to the 10’s (WW 1 and Influenza), 20’s (Wall Street Crash), 30’s (Great Depression), and 40’s (WW 2), the 50’s were the first decade for most people living back then that there was no great cataclysm. If you were 50 years old in 1960, the 50’s would have been the only decade of your life to that point that things were normal.
Compared to the 60’s (Vietnam and Culture Wars), and 70’s (Oil Crisis and Stagflation), they look pretty good as well.