Context: The 1950s were a time of a post-war economic boom where suburbs exploded amid a baby ... sample of 5,027 adults (age ...

Living the Suburban Dream In tandem with the baby boom was the suburban boom as suburban living quickly became a physical manifestation of the American dream in the 1950s.

Freshly built suburban homes were filled with the latest technological gadgets as consumers raced to join what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the "affluent society." A typical 1950s ...