Yessiree bob, back when the US was a wealthy and powerful free country populated by American families in clean pressed clothing and not a tattoo or piercing to be seen on Main Street.
The watershed year? 1960 and the accession of JFK, the media darling of his time, in a fraudulent election, marking the final triumph of show-biz bullshiite over any vestige of reason.
BTW, American cars were really god-awful (and god-awful looking) for a long time ... but not anymore!
A VERY brief period in our history, as the European economies had been destroyed, and the Asians were just getting started. We all but had the world markets to ourselves, and American labor could extort all it could from their employers.
Of course, prior to the 1950s, many of our families lived in rowhouses or tenements (which they usually couldn't afford to own themselves), near belching factories, making only just enough to feed their families.