1950: When Nothing Was The Same

1950: When Nothing Was the SameThe pace of life in America at midcentury was infinitely more languid than it is today. The population of the U.S. was just 151,325,798 in 1950, compared with 248,764,170 in the latest census. In both its demographics and, perhaps far more important, its self-image, America 50 years ago was dramatically whiter.The pace of business in this precomputer, prefax, pre-Internet era paralleled the pace of technology: Not by chance was it the age of business lunches that o...