The Great Depression was done, and World War II had been over since 1945, so the transitional period from the late to 1940s to the early 1950s was a much smoother one than the previous two decades. As ...

It appears like something out of a time capsule. Vintage hot rods, optimized for speed and power, idle in the car parks. Women coolly lean against them, their bullet bras and ankle-cut pin-up jeans ...