Imagine you are someone in the 1950s who just got their first car or television in the family (a working man, a teenager, perhaps a middle-class housewife). Please post a car commercial or advertisement from the period or a television show from the time period to highlight your post. (YouTube is full of 1950s TV shows and commercials. See what you can find.)
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How did the rise of commercialism and mobility impact the 1950s society? What were the positive and negative aspects?
Here is an example of a clip selected from YouTube. This clip features Elvis Presley “dangerously” shaking those infamous hips on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
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