Everybody today has a vision of what the Mid-Century years were like. Our nostalgic view says that everyone then had sleek steel-and-glass houses, George Nelson furniture, and tail-finned convertibles with two-toned paint and Continental kits on their rear bumpers. When people wanted to get out of their futuristic abodes, they jumped into the car and visited a Googie malt shop or bowling alley.

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