50s suburbia

In the mid-fifties, one of the first "new-fangled" supermarkets opened in the UK in Finchley High Road. This is purported to be a shot of the interior, although it's difficult to say for certain after the passage of so many years. If it is the Premier Supermarket, there would have been a coffee bar on the left hand side, looking from the street, where they served beverages in malamine, unbreakable cups. Caffe Nero occupies the space as at 2018.

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…

About as into the spirit as we're going to get.

Park Junior High - St. Paul, MN 1958.

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

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