I n the years following World War II, the United States became the world leader in industry and a global power. Culture in the 1950s is often seen as one of conformity, but several contradictions ...

Adriene Biondo and Chris Nichols co-authored “Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling,” a new look at the 1950s-’60s heyday ... the end of lanes) as suburbs blossomed.

Freshly built suburban homes were filled with the latest technological gadgets as consumers raced to join what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the "affluent society." A typical 1950s ...

And by the end of the 1950s boom, home ownership had climbed to 61 percent. Today, two out of every three Americans own their own homes. Increasingly, those homes are in the suburbs; 12 percent in ...