Sarah Archer

That starts to be true in late 50s and early 60s.

It is still very expensive.

So if maybe like one percent of the population was traveling to Europe by propeller plane and like reenacting the scene from Funny Face, walking down the steps of the Louvre every once or twice a year.

Then a few years later in the jet age, it's still a tiny percentage.

It just means that it's more upper middle class people rather than strictly just wealthy people.

Upper middle class people are going to Europe.

They are taking vacations in Hawaii, which in 1959 becomes a U.S.

state.

They are engaging in the fantasy of a nearby paradise like Acapulco.

They're visiting the Caribbean.

All of this

creates an interest and a buzz in the larger sort of American psyche because you can experience a version of it, like a mediated version of that, by either going to Disney World or going to a World's Fair.

And you can do both of those things by going to New York or going to Florida.

And when you do that, you'll encounter, let's say, the pavilion from Thailand and maybe get your first taste of a version of Thai food for the first time ever in your entire life in 1965.

Or you can visit Disney World and go to the Polynesian Resort and experience a kind of fantasia of South Pacific culture, which it needs.

We don't need to say this, but of course, it is extraordinarily mediated and like kind of constructed of stereotypes.

But I want to draw your attention to can I send you some images?

Yeah, absolutely.

Are you familiar with the International Sandwich Gardens?

Yes.