Period 6 Main Page Chapter Summaries Literary Topics About the 1920s Gatsby Project

In Love--




Courtship was changed forever by the availability of the automobile. Couples were no longer confined to the parlor or the front porch of their houses. Instead, they had newfound privacy and were free to drive anywhere they wished--or nowhere at all. Many advertising campaigns associated with the sale of automobiles used sex as a way to market their particular product. However, many newspapers cried out against the moral decay that was represented by the new popular emergence of the automobile.




Car Culture