[UA] Unknown 50s

[Mike Lake]

>> I'm thinking about setting an UA game in the 50s.
>> So, what do I need to consider?
>
>    Caution: when I started this post, it was tidy and direct.  As I 
> continued adding thoughts, it mutated into a shapeless pile of points to 
> consider.  It also inadvertantly assumes the game will be set in the US, 
> in part because that's what I'm most familiar with, in part because UA is 
> an Amerocentric game (largely because that's what the authors are most 
> familiar with).

    Addendum to my first post: don't forget the cigarette industry! 
Carcinomancy would be in full swing, and the knowledge that cigarettes are 
bad for you was tucked deep in the closet in the 50s.
    The modern highway system was Eisenhower's project.  Any cross-country 
adventures will take players through whatever backwater town you like, since 
they can't count on a straight drive from New York to Las Vegas (or 
wherever).
    The labor movement had moved from fighting underdog in the progressive 
era to entrenched power block.  You might squeeze some symbolic tension from 
the concurrent fear of communism, which celebrated labor above all, and 
labor-as-establishment in the west.