1950s suburbia

POST-Apr 1960

1950s Suburban Street of Typical Homes Queens New York Photographic Print by R. Krubner at AllPosters.com

House Hunting 1950s

Along with the housing market, that All-American suburban bubble of optimism has burst The suburbs were once the promised land; the American Dream made manifest . For over 65 years, home ownership …

50s Suburbia is an aesthetic that describes the culture of the American middle class in the 1950s. Due to a population boom following World War II, new neighborhoods were built in the areas surrounding large cities. These communities were known as suburbs, thus the term suburbia. The most famous example is Levittown, in New York state, which was the prototype for mass produced, mass-scale housing. The government led push for a return to normalcy (i.e., traditional gender roles) following…

1950s SUBURBAN SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE DRIVEWAY GARAGE

The 1950s brought us a whole host of things -- rock & roll, the jet age, the tail end of the baby boomers -- and a whole glut of (sometimes amusing)