Here is an Old Chevrolet B&W Television Commercial about the 1956 Chevrolet Station Wagons and Sedans. Man... Does THIS bring back memories:
https://archive.org/details/Chevrolet_Commercial_1956
America was just over a decade along following World War II and "The Baby Boomers" Generation was coming....(Mine) Churning along in Full Swing with starting families and buying Split-Level Homes on the G.I. Bill.. Thus, the Great Cities with their Suburbs were being created. Roadside companies like McDonald's Restaurants, Arby's, The Boulevard Drive-Ins, Elvis Beach Parties and the Baby Showers that resulted were all the vogue back in those times.
And right along with all that ...there were Plenty of Gas Stations popping up like Mushrooms, selling Cheap, Leaded, High Octane Fuel right along with Cold Cokes and Pepsi-Colas in Slender-Necked "Re-Use-able" Glass Bottles that you could get a Nickel-A-Piece for returning. And many of those Gas Stations were populated with Working Men and Women as Station Attendants, Car Mechanics and Pretty, Sweet Cashiers located on practically every street corner of every city in the land.
It was General Motors (and perhaps... just few "others") that only a decade earlier had been building Four Engine, High Altitude Bombers flown over the Atlantic Ocean to take back Fortress Europe from the Germans and Win The War in the Far East against Japan. It was all done with American and Canadian Labor, right there inside their Giant Auto Manufacturing Bays. It was back then that President Dwight David Eisenhower had remebered seeing the construction of the German Autobahn and he wanted America to have a similar network of Super-Highways and if necessary, to be able to move vast Military Convoys around the USA from Coast to Coast.
And with the Winning of the War, returning Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen found jobs in building New Roads, New Bridges and New Highways and Big Companies like GM soon went back to making Cars and Trucks introduced to us right along with the slogans like, "See The USA in a Chevrolet" watched every day on Tiny B&W Televisions all across America. GM brought along Fun and Excitement to all those Road Trips we would take and travel around all over the sites that made up the very idea of having, "The Freedom to Just Get Up ...and GO" ...anywhere we liked all across North America.
And Wow... I got to live through and experience ALL OF That!
https://archive.org/details/Chevrolet_Commercial_1956
America was just over a decade along following World War II and "The Baby Boomers" Generation was coming....(Mine) Churning along in Full Swing with starting families and buying Split-Level Homes on the G.I. Bill.. Thus, the Great Cities with their Suburbs were being created. Roadside companies like McDonald's Restaurants, Arby's, The Boulevard Drive-Ins, Elvis Beach Parties and the Baby Showers that resulted were all the vogue back in those times.
And right along with all that ...there were Plenty of Gas Stations popping up like Mushrooms, selling Cheap, Leaded, High Octane Fuel right along with Cold Cokes and Pepsi-Colas in Slender-Necked "Re-Use-able" Glass Bottles that you could get a Nickel-A-Piece for returning. And many of those Gas Stations were populated with Working Men and Women as Station Attendants, Car Mechanics and Pretty, Sweet Cashiers located on practically every street corner of every city in the land.
It was General Motors (and perhaps... just few "others") that only a decade earlier had been building Four Engine, High Altitude Bombers flown over the Atlantic Ocean to take back Fortress Europe from the Germans and Win The War in the Far East against Japan. It was all done with American and Canadian Labor, right there inside their Giant Auto Manufacturing Bays. It was back then that President Dwight David Eisenhower had remebered seeing the construction of the German Autobahn and he wanted America to have a similar network of Super-Highways and if necessary, to be able to move vast Military Convoys around the USA from Coast to Coast.
And with the Winning of the War, returning Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen found jobs in building New Roads, New Bridges and New Highways and Big Companies like GM soon went back to making Cars and Trucks introduced to us right along with the slogans like, "See The USA in a Chevrolet" watched every day on Tiny B&W Televisions all across America. GM brought along Fun and Excitement to all those Road Trips we would take and travel around all over the sites that made up the very idea of having, "The Freedom to Just Get Up ...and GO" ...anywhere we liked all across North America.
And Wow... I got to live through and experience ALL OF That!
