Of course, if the direst predictions about future shortages of fuel and energy come true, the suburbs will be in even deeper trouble. There will be no gasoline for the automobiles that propelled the rush to the suburbs in the first place, and are still the suburbs’ lifeline. There will be no gas for the power mowers that manicure suburban lawns, to say nothing of fuel for heating swimming pools. But meanwhile the suburbs continue to expand and proliferate. At latest count there were more than twenty thousand suburban communities in the United States, and the number grows daily. It has been estimated that the suburban population in the last fifteen years has accounted for 75 percent of the nation’s growth. The suburbs are emerging as our newest majority. As Samuel Kaplan, director of the New York City Educational Construction Fund says: “The quintessence of America is now suburbia. It is in suburbia that most of the nation’s growth is occurring—in population, in jobs, and in power. After growing from a nation of farms to a nation of cities, it is clear from all signs that America has become a nation of suburbs.”
To be able to “move on” is a luxury that is still not affordable by everyone. It is a truism to say that the rich have always had it better than the poor, and that the haves—at every level of society and at every stage of history—have had more mobility than the have-nots, whether the move is by camel caravan or air-conditioned limousine. It is also true that the American rich are often bored, often restless. It seems certain that the restless privileged of America will never be content to be settled in one place for very long, and will always be pushing outward or inward—into the bustling cities one moment, out to the wooded hills the next, searching for something of the past with one hand and something of the future with another, in pursuit of some suburbia of the mind, chasing the dream of the good life, the perfect life, that must exist, or be made to exist, on some patch of real estate or another. Hooked into the dream of the “upwardly mobile”—a term we Americans invented—is the certainty that whatever inconveniences life may present us at the moment, wherever we may be, this, too, shall pass. To help it pass, we move on. To a new house in, we hope, a better neighborhood.
Index
ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), 96, 97
Adams, John Quincy, 45
Adams-Morgan section of Washington, D.C., 200–203
Adelante, 201
age of suburbanites, average, 197
Ailey, Alvin, 143
alcohol, availibility of:
in Hudson, Ohio, 34
in Salt Lake City, Utah, 22–23
Ali, Muhammad, 5
Allen, Ivan, 81
Allen O’Neill Drive, Darien, Conn., 103–104
Alta Club, Salt Lake City, Utah, 27
Amberley Village, Ohio, 51
American Bar Association, 76
American Psychiatric Association, 188
American Yacht Club, 80–81, 117, 120, 173
Anderson, James Bonbright, 35
Anderson, William P., 149
Annenberg, Walter H., 134, 139
Anti-Defamation League, Southern Council, 72, 76
anti-Semitism, 78–82
in Atlanta clubs, 68–73
See also Jews, acceptance of
Apawamis Golf Club, 78, 120, 173
Archbold, John, 127
Ardmore, Pa., 134
Ardsley Club, 129
Arizona Ballet, 15
Arizona Republic, 15
Arizona State University, 13, 15
art museums, as means of social entry, 177
Ashland, Linda, 160
Atherton, Calif., 153
Atlanta, Ga.:
old families, 75–76
private clubs, 68–77
urban life in, 192, 194
Atlanta Constitution, 75, 76
Atlanta Journal, 75, 76
Autry, Gene, 7
Baker, James A., site of house, 7
Baker, John, 50
Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., 134, 135
Baldwin Hills, Calif., 198
Barclay Classes, 78, 177
Barlow, Haven, 28
Bell, Griffin, 68, 75, 79
Belvedere, 124
Benjamin, Allan, 158–159
Berwyn, Pa., 134, 135
Best, Mrs. Hugh, 136
Beverly Hills, Calif., 166, 172
sex practices in, 181
Bing, Rudolf, 71
Birmingham, Mich., 64
Birnam Wood Club, Santa Barbara, 164
Black, Mrs. Jennie Prince, 127
blacks, acceptance of, 174, 198–199
in Atlanta clubs, 71, 77
in Grosse Pointe, Mich., 174
in Philadelphia suburbs, 67, 139
in Rye, N.Y., 119
Blood and Money, Thompson, 6
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 64, 174
financial burdens of life in, 183–185
Bloomingdale’s ladies’ room handbag story, 190 n.
Boston, Mass., 131, 141
Quincy Market, 197
urban life in, 192
water views, 193
Boulders, The, Ariz., 16
Brace, Dr. Charles, 125–126
Brando, Marlon, 60
Brigham Young University, 25
Bronfman, Edgar, 106
Bronfman, Samuel, 124
Brown, Franklin Q., 126–127
Brown, Walston H., 126–127
Bryce, Mrs. Angelica Schuyler, 165
Bryce, Peter Cooper, 165
Bryn Mawr, Pa., 133, 134, 176
Buffalo, N.Y., sex practices in, 182
Buffalo Tennis & Squash Club, 182
Burlingame, Calif., 153
Bush, George, 5
Butes, James, site of house, 8
Butler, Michael, 161
Camargo Country Club, 48, 51
Candidate, The, 154
Candler, Asa W., 76
Candler, John S., II, 76
Capital City Club, 68–69, 73
Carefree, Ariz., 16–18
Carnegie, Nancy (Mrs. Percy Rockefeller), 94
Carroll, Gen. Howard, 123
Carrollcliff, 123–124
Carter, Frank, 69, 82
Carter, Jimmy, 68
Carter, Victor, II, 8
Carter, Victor, III, 8
Castellane, Count Paul Ernest Boniface de, 125
Castro, Raul, 13
Cedarhurst, N.Y., 197
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 165
Chambers, Ann Cox, 75–76
change in suburbs, causes of, 197–200
Chapin, Roy, 64
charity, local, as means of social entry, 178
Charleston, S.C., 131, 193
Chase, Harold, 165
Chase, Pearl, 162, 165
Cherokee Club, 72
Chicago, Ill., 192, 194–195
water views, 193
children, advantage of, in suburbs, 177
Churchill, Winston, 127
church membership, 177
Cincinnati, Ohio, 39–46, 131, 141
Blue Book, 54
cultural life, 52
Fountain Square, 41–42
Mount Adams, 193, 203
old families, 44, 49–55
Procter & Gamble, 43–47
skyline, 41
Spring Grove Cemetery, 39–40
suburbs:
Amberley Village, 51
Clifton, 48
Glendale, 43, 44, 46, 47
Grandin Road, 48–49, 55–56
Hyde Park, 42, 43, 48–49, 50, 51, 55–56
Indian Hill, 39, 40, 43, 47–48, 51, 53
Madison Road, 48
Mariemont, 43, 50
Terrace Park, 43, 53
urban center, 41–42
urban problems, 171
water views, 193
Wesley Chapel, 45, 172
Cincinnati, 45
Cincinnati Country Club, 48, 51
Cincinnati Enquirer, 45, 53
Cincinnati Post, 45
city life, 188–191
problems of, 171–173
mental health in, 188–189
return to, 191, 192–197
Cleveland, Ohio, 33–38
crime rate, 190
old families, 33
suburbs, 33, 122
Hudson, 34–38
Peninsula, 37
urban life, 37–38, 194–197
Clifton, Ohio, 48, 171
club cars on commuter lines, 110–113
clubs, private, see private clubs
Coca-Cola families, 76
Cohen, Dolly, 53
Cohen, Jeffrey N., 201
Cohen, John, 71
Collier Heights, Ga., 198
Commerce Club, 72
commute, definition of, 106–107
commuting, art of, 107–114
Connecticut Turnpike, 86–87, 99
Conrad, Barnaby, 161
Coral Casino, 166
Coronado High School, Scottsdale, Ariz., 12
Corbett, Patricia (Mrs. Ralph), 49, 55
Corbett, Ralph, 49
Corbett Foundation, 49
Corcoran, Robert, 200, 201
Cornwall, Conn., 174
Country Club of Detroit, 60
Country Club Plaza, shopping center, 180
country clubs, see private clubs
Courtlandt Place, Houston, Texas, 8–9
Cox, Lori, 11–13
Crest Hills Country Club, 51
crime:
comparative rates, 190
in Darien, Conn., 100–102
Custance, James D., 69, 79
D. B. Cooper’s, 23
Dallas, Texas, urban life in, 192
Darien, Conn., 87, 99–105, 172, 174, 175
Darien Review, 104
Darlington, Thomas, 17
Dartmouth College, 93
Daylesford, Pa., 134
Daylight Time, 16
decor, interior, 176
Denver, Colo., urban living in, 194
Depew, Chauncey, 130
Detroit, Mich., 57–64
old families, 57–58, 61, 62
Renaissance Plaza, 59, 195
suburbs:
Birmingham, 64
Bloomfield Hills, 64
Grosse Pointe, 57–64, 122, 135, 174, 183
relationship to city, 59
urban life in, 192
Detroit Symphony, 59
Devereaux, Marion, 53–54
Devon, Pa., 134
Dillman, Bradford, 161
Disabled American Veterans, 13
discrimination:
against blacks, 61, 69, 78–82
against Jews, 68–73, 78–82
against single women, 156–158
divorce, incidence of, 190
in Hudson, Ohio, 35
reasons for, 187–188
in suburbs, 182
Dodge, Marcellus Huntley, 90–91
Douthit, Claude, Jr., 146
Dow, Earl, 4
Downs, Hugh, 17
dress:
Main Line, 136
Santa Barbara, 161
Scottsdale, Ariz., 14
Watch Hill, R.I., 148
Drulie, Sylvia, 143
Drury, Samuel S., 147
Duchin, Peter, 148
Dykema, Mrs. Raymond, 63
Eagle’s Nest, 14
earthquake at Santa Barbara, Calif., 163
East Aurora, N.Y., 182
East Ridge Shopping Center, 154
Eccles, George, 26
Einstein, Albert, 145
Elite Directory, 128
Elson, Edward, 72, 76
Emeny, Brooks, 92
Emery, John, 49–50
Emery, Mary M., 43, 50
Emery Auditorium, 50
Fadiman, Clifton, 161
Fairfield County, Conn., 87–105, 122
family room, 187–188
Federal Heights, Utah, 21
financial burdens of suburban life, 183–185
Finneran, Jane, 54–55
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant, 147
Five Towns area of Long Island, N.Y., 197–198
Flagler, Henry Morrison, 133
Florestal, 165
food, in suburbs, 176
eaten by rich people, 74
Ford, Eleanor (Mrs. Edsel), 62
Ford, Emory, 62
Ford, Frederick Clifford, 62
Ford, Henry, Sr., 61, 63
Ford, Henry, II, 61–62, 64
Ford, John B., 62
Ford, Walter Buhl, 62
Franklin, DeJongh, 71, 72
Franzen, Ulrich, 185
Frisch, Mrs. Robert, 81
Fromm, Erich, 188
Gable, Clark, 75
Galleria Shopping Center, 6
Gans, Herbert, 183
Gasner, Beverley, 198
Geier, Inga, 51
General Motors families, 165–166, 183
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation, 97–98
Ghirardelli Square, 194
Gilligan, John, 55
Giralda, 90–91, 98
Gladstone Car, 111–113
Gladwyne, Pa., 133
Glendale, Ohio, 43, 44, 46, 47, 171
Godfather, The, 60
Goldwater, Barry, 11, 12
Gone with the Wind, 75
Goodsell, Almira Geraldine (Mrs. William Rockefeller), 89
Goodstein, Jeanette (Mrs. Leonard), 186–188
Goodstein, Leonard, 15, 186–188
Gordon, Ernest, 201, 202
Gordon, The Rev. Ernest, 146
Gould, Anna (Duchesse de Talleyrand), 125
Gould, Jay, 124
Gracemere, 129
Grand Central Station, N.Y., homosexual rendezvous in, 182
Grapple St., Rye, N.Y., 119
Grasso, Ella, 111
Gratz, Helen (Mrs. Godfrey Rockefeller), 93
Gratz, Rebecca, 93
Great Salt Lake, 27–29
Green, Adelaide Browning (Mrs. H. Stuart), 129
Greenwich, Conn., 87–98, 99, 117, 167, 172, 174, 175
railroad station, homosexuals in, 182
Grey, Mrs. Horace, 165
Griffin, Merv, 167
Grosse Pointe, Mich., 57–64, 122, 135, 174, 183
automobile people in, 183
development of, 63
Ford families in, 61–62
Lake Shore Road, 64
relationship to Detroit, 59
Grosse Pointe City, Mich., 59
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., 59, 60
Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., 59, 60
Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., 58, 59
Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., 59, 60
growth of suburbs, vii–viii, 122–130
Gulph Mills Golf Club, 67
Hall, Seymour, 111, 113
Hamilton, Alexander, II, 127
Handy, Helen Parmalee, 58
Hanna, Mark, 34
Harvard University, 93
Harkness, Rebekah (Mrs. William Hale), 143
Harkness, William Hale, 143
Harlow, Harry, 79–80
Harness, Edward G., 43
Harrison, Benjamin, 51
Harrison, Charles Learner, III, 51–53
Harrison, Edmond, 52
Harrison, Learner Blackman, 52
Harrison, Molly (Mrs. Charles L., III), 51–53, 178
Harrison, Pegram, 69
Harrison, William Henry, 45, 51
Haverford, Pa., 133
Heirloom Cities, 131
Heminway, Mrs. John, 148
Herring, Joanne (Mrs. Robert), 4–5
Herring, Robert, 4–5
Hewlett, N.Y., 197
Hill, Jesse, 77
Hill, Joan Robinson (Mrs. John), 6
Hill, John, 6
Hillsborough, Calif., 153, 154
Hitchings, Nancy, 102
Hite, Kathleen, 17
Hodge, Sh
elby, 5
Holliday, Benjamin, 124
homosexual rendezvous points, 182
hospital work as means of social entry, 177–178
Houston, Texas, 3–10
Courtlandt Place, 8–9
crime rate, 190
Heights, 7
old families, 7–8
River Oaks, 3–7, 9–10
urban life in, 7–9, 194
Hovas, Alessandra (Sandra) (Baroness di Portanova), 5
Hovhaness, Alan, 154
Hudson, David, 34
Hudson, Ohio, 34–38, 141
social distinctions in, 35–36
Hudson Country Club, 35
Hughes, Howard, 25
Hurley, Mrs. Collier, 4
Hussein, King of Jordan, 4–5
Hutchins, Robert, 165
Hyde Park, Ohio, 42, 43, 48–49, 50, 51, 55–56, 171, 172, 193
Indian Hill, Ohio, 39, 40, 43, 47–48, 51, 53, 171, 173
Indian Village, Rye, N.Y., 117
Ingersoll, Anna, 131
inner city life, see urban life
interior decor, 176
Inwood, N.Y., 197
Ireland, Harry, 108
Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Keith, 3–4
Jackson, Maynard, 71
Jagger, Mick, 161
Jamail’s, 6–7
Jews, acceptance of:
in Atlanta clubs, 68–73, 76
in California suburbs, 166
in Cincinnati, 51
in country clubs, 67–82
in Darien, Conn., 103
in Five Towns, Long Island, N.Y., 197–198
in Grosse Pointe, Mich., 61, 174
in Hudson, Ohio, 37
in Los Angeles Country Club, 37
in Philadelphia suburbs, 67, 133, 134, 139
at Procter & Gamble, 47
in Twigs, 117–118
in Watch Hill, R.I., 145
Joy, Helen Newberry (Mrs. Henry B.), 57–59, 64
Kansas City, Mo., suburbs of, 179–181
Kanzler, Mrs. Robert, 62
Kaplan, Samuel, 204
Kelly, Ken, 199
Kimball, Spencer W., 27
King & Spalding, law firm, 73, 79
Kinsolving, Arthur Lee, 146
Kirbo, Charles, 75
Korda, Michael, 159–160
Krumm, John M., 146
Ladera Heights, Calif., 198
La Grange, Gerald, 120
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