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Couple Dreaming of Their Future in the Stars by Constantin Alajalov
![[image of a young couple looking at the night sky where the constellations are made of consumer goods]](http://www.getrichslowly.org/images/americandream.jpg "The American Dream")
cover to The Saturday Evening Post, 15 August 1959
cover to The Saturday Evening Post, 15 August 1959
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September 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Dig the groovy TV, man.
September 7th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
sad, so sad
September 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
It hasn’t changed so much, has it?
September 8th, 2006 at 2:43 am
I am Norwegian, and I still have the dream about one day going to america and get me a new life and a nice job and house and wife and car and kids and and and and.
=(
September 8th, 2006 at 5:33 am
That’s sad, beautiful, and strangely compelling. I love old magazines.
September 8th, 2006 at 7:49 am
They should have added cell phones and credit cards!
Very sad indeed.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:15 am
You can dream
the American Dream
but you sleep with the lights on
and wake up with a scream
–Warren Zevon
It’s always been a sad, hopeless dream. And an expectation born of the capitalistic need to create demand. Any expectation that comes from outside ourselves will lead only to disappointment and sadness.
But I still think the TV is groovy. It’s got legs AND rabbit ears!
September 8th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Maybe naked-eye astronomy is not such a cheap hobby.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:36 am
I was just looking at this image again and realized that one of the “constellations” is a drill-press. How cool is that?!
September 8th, 2006 at 11:53 am
J.D., I caught that right away. I think it’s next to a power drill. Maybe something subliminal going on there.