t, sold How To kits for drawing and painting and developed Color by Numbers painting kits. This gave everyone, especially those with no artistic aptitude, to do something they could feel proud of, a hobbys end result which looked nice even for them. Now TV was not only a direct vehicle, but also the cause and effect as well.Now to speak of the place which was also known as a TV show. Even though Disneyland got off to a really rough start with fake tickets, gas leaks, asphalt melting, and running out of food, its popularity soon picked up speed. Disney knowing that the car of the 1950s is a family car he ingeniously designed Disneyland around entertaining the entire family. The automobile and the freeway would soon prove to be an essential part of the major success of Disneyland. Walt Disney had already won a very large audience in TV Land, and having his family automobile knowledge, he had a sure-fire plan. He actually took his own TV (and movie) ideas and made them real. The magical place where TV came alive. Automobiles would prove to play yet another huge role in Americas culture and how we view ourselves. The next chapter: Autoeroticism: Americas Love Affair with the Car in the Television Age deals with, well, just that. In the early 1950s, the two things being produced more then ever, at astronomical proportions, were automobiles and TVs. TV ads for cars became the absolute bread and butter of the auto industry. The neat image of the typical housewife hopping into the big roomy sedan, hitting the push button starter, and whirling off to the local store stimulated the buying public into a frenzy. Buying a car meant buying an image, especially an American car and image. If buying a car meant buying an image then giving away a car meant to actually give someone a good ol American image. Elvis Presley, when appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show for the third time in 1957, joked about buying all of his fans brand new Lincolns...
