Say you were born in the mid 1940s. What would your life look like? What kind of games would you play, what sort of education would you receive? What were the gender differences? What could you go out and buy for a dollar (this one I'm especially curious about. I've found what a dollar back then would be equivalent to today, but I'm more curious about what you could do with it. Say you went to a corner store, what could you buy for a dollar?). What was dating like?
Pretty much, what was it like growing up and living back then? I am too young to remember/know anything before the age of computers and cell phones, and it seems fascinating but hard to find information on.
You might try The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. He's no historian and makes no claim that his reminescences are history, but he did grow up then. His experiences are probably reasonably representative of at least many children in the midwest.
"Populuxe : The look and life of America in the '50s and '60s, from tailfins and TV dinners to Barbie dolls and fallout shelters" by Thomas Hine takes a good look at the material culture of the suburbs of America in in 1954 to 1964 time frame. Another take on the subject is "The grass is always greener over the Septic tank" by Erma Bombeck, although that book is written from the perspective of a mother of three Baby Boomers.
An idealized version is portrayed in TV shows like Leave it to Beaver and the Donna Reed Show. Both were made during the 1950s and are still shown on the Me TV network in 2014. The 1970s sitcom "Happy Days" and the movie "American Graffiti" take a look at teenagers in the 1950s. A slightly more recent movie, "Peggy Sue Got Married" also looked at teen age culture in the 1950s.