50s vs. 60s By: Lance Hart

Changes In The Automobile 50s was about splendor and style while the 60s about racing and power 50s had bigger, taller, and more chrome while the 60s had smaller cars with bigger engines 50s had big cars with tail fins but the 60s had big cars with more horsepower 60s was the decade of the muscle car and pony car Pontiac GTO and Ford Mustang got their start Stock car and Drag racing were popular

Reasons For The Changes Suburbanization 50s where a time of family values and the 60s a time of freedom and individualism, sex, and a “do your own thing” attitude 50s where a time of prosperity and show the prosperity with large cars and chrome 60s was a time of conflict(Vietnam war) and freedom, muscle cars and pony cars offered that freedom and individuality Migration from south to big cities in the north, middle class families moved out of the cities to form suburbs

Changes in Architecture Seattle space needle 1962 United Nations headquarters in s more modern while 60s is more futuristic 50s age of modernism 50s was formal and clean, lots of straight lines 60s was more earthy, wood tones, curves, and color

Reasons For The Change Space race of the 60s had a profound difference on the architecture 50s had a very structered society while the 60s allowed for more freedom