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.)
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.
