I think there were a lot of places like this. Small proto-cities where the upper crust ended up moving out of the city as businesses closed up and the shift away from the glitz and glamour of the roaring twenties and rococo moved to the pastoral charm of the open spaces evident in the 40's and 50's, and as the rise of the automobile led to a new commuting working class. Places like Brockton, Fall River, Lowell, where as the gentry moved out, they collapsed internally and struggle even now with the economic conditions.
1934 is a wonderful turning point, with the economy, with the class structure, with politics, and with what the notion of american dream encompassed. Definitely a time of internal and external social pressures that can feed into stories of desperation, debauchery, deceit, or dissonance.
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Date: 2013-02-10 09:12 pm (UTC)I think there were a lot of places like this. Small proto-cities where the upper crust ended up moving out of the city as businesses closed up and the shift away from the glitz and glamour of the roaring twenties and rococo moved to the pastoral charm of the open spaces evident in the 40's and 50's, and as the rise of the automobile led to a new commuting working class. Places like Brockton, Fall River, Lowell, where as the gentry moved out, they collapsed internally and struggle even now with the economic conditions.
1934 is a wonderful turning point, with the economy, with the class structure, with politics, and with what the notion of american dream encompassed. Definitely a time of internal and external social pressures that can feed into stories of desperation, debauchery, deceit, or dissonance.