The Last Dream-O-Rama: The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build, 1950-1960 - Hardcover

McCall, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609608010 ISBN 13: 9780609608012

Verlag: Crown Pub, 2001

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Looks at the dream car culture of the 1950s through humorous text and illustrations of some of the cars Detroit never made, including the Quizfire 5,000 Jackpot, the Nixoneer Squelchormatic, and the Bongo Beatnick Ferlinghetti Turbo-Hipster.

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he postwar economic boom fostered such prosperity that easy credit allowed even hourly workers to plunge themselves hopelessly into debt, a brand-new car became an attainable dream for millions in the 1950s. And soon came dream cars to further stimulate their automotive saliva glands. By mid-decade, every American carmaker was parading its glittering glimpses of four-wheeled futurism before a dazzled public -- flights of styling fancy and functional wonderment blaring 'Headed for your driveway soon!' while mumbling, sotto voce, 'Don't hold us to it.' "

So begins Bruce McCall's tongue-in-cheek history of Detroit's dream car era. From the author of the cult classic Zany Afternoons comes perhaps the sharpest, funniest, most original overview of Fifties culture -- and Fifties cars -- yet published. The Last Dream-o-Rama is a surrealistic satire, not just of the dream car phenomenon but of the conformist and materialistic value system that produced it. From the Q

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609608010
• ISBN 13: 9780609608012
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 123