Potpourri
May, 1994
The way we wereFrom American elms, the Automat and balsa wood model airplanes to vinyl records, wedding-night virgins and white gloves, Chronicle Books' oversized softcover Going Going Gone, by Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson, is a bittersweet written and visual look at vanishing Americana. Good riddance to DDT, girdles, men's garters and the draft, but we wish that drive-in movies, enclosed telephone booths, soda fountains and women's stockings weren't fading from our lives. The same goes for...
