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This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_ownership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_ownership says 60% of U.S. families owned a car way back in
by unholythree 4y ago
This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_ownership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_ownership says 60% of U.S. families owned a car way back in 1929.
Remember "Grapes of Wrath" or even that famous great depression era photo with the "World's highest standard of living" billboard. Following the Model T a lot of Americans had a car.
- Gibbon1 4y agoWill Rodgers quote, We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. Big difference I think between the US where my grandmother was driving to high school during WWI and Britain. Even now I think Europeans drive half as many miles a year as Americans. Course another quote from a middle class British writer of the first half of the 20th century. About her families situation after WWII. We never imagined being wealthy enough to own a car and at the same time too poor to have servants. Offhand thought of mine is there always was some sort of prudishness about commies/fascista that looked down on any trappings of wealth.