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before the American aviation public is a crucial reason for its
immediate and enormous commercial success.
One important reason for Bonanza’s success when it was
introduced is that in the United States, for entirely under-
standable reasons, in the immediate post- war years there
was an innate and urgent desire for freshness and newness
as a sign that the coming new, more peaceful world was
going to be far better than that in which so recently and so
tragically entire nations and populations had been utterly
destroyed.
While it took most countries in Europe and Asia many
years, and in some cases, decades after the end of the war,
to significantly recover and move forward again, the United
States, whose cities and civilian population had been spared
the cruel ravaging and devastation that had befallen most
of the rest of the world during the war, even before the war
ended was ready and able, to begin anew.
From the late summer of 1945 and throughout the 1950s
people all over the world deeply desired and worked hard
to create a new beginning. A new, clean, peaceful and
prosperous world had been promised, and now, for some,
it was in their grasp. In the United States, everything from
buildings to automobiles to kitchen appliances to furni-
ture to the new, retractable ballpoint pens took on a clean,
“streamlined” and modern look. The stodgy, old, heavily
riveted, ornately carved, massive, dark antique appearance
of much of what had defined the pre- war world was now
considered more than simply “old- fashioned.” In a tacit
but very substantial way, the artifacts of the pre- war world
and culture were a sore and uncomfortable reminder of how
that world and culture had so utterly failed humanity. Many
of these things were thrown or given away or were put in
the attic or the basement, out of sight. Accordingly, decades
passed before “antique” or “used” furniture and objects
regained popular appreciation and value. After the war all
that was “new” and, most particularly, that which was not
at all like what was old, was in high demand.
These are a few magazine advertisements which give a
good sense of the flavour of this post- war feeling:
It was into this supercharged, sociologically, historically
No wonder he’s smiling.