The period after World War II ushered in seismic changes in American life. After two decades of depression and war, things started to look up again. Massive subdivsions full of tract housing sprouted up in the suburbs surrounding the major cities of the United States. People started buying things again, things such as new cars, new appliances, and even the television. Although the interstate highway system was years in the future, there were highways being built everywhere, and the great migration of people to the south and west from the industrial cities of the Northeast begun. Once again America was on the move.
