>> The post-war takes a lot of dammed up desire, matches it up with modern production, and gets going. But along with that you get the advertising machine and the planned obsolete. <<

Steve and Bucky hate planned obsolescence.

>> At first, that was a means of diffusion. The old car might be a fine starter car, but with the suburbs what was a 'nice way to get into the country' becomes more and more a requirement. <<

Yes, that's true. America's walkability plummeted.

>> (Ford had sped that himself because he hated beer gardens. Those anchored the ends of trolley lines and also served as 'family rooms' for people living in close quarters.) <<

They were good places, though, some of them.