For Minnesota's Greatest Generation, the post-war Boom of the late 1940s and 1950s signaled the start of a long-awaited "bright future."
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Oh, Baby!
Returning soldiers and a booming economy created conditions for a surge in population that lasted into the 1960s.
Building A Life
Returning veterans found themselves with opportunities for a future brighter than they could have imagined before the war.
Ah, Suburbia!
Families in search of the American Dream migrated from the cities to the expanding suburbs in search of a better life.