| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative

*Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955–1966*. By Kirse Granat May. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.)
Boomtown sights and sounds back a crisp examination of an inspired perception: certain events during an eleven-year period proved to be a watershed for American popular culture. Market-driven purveyors of music, movies, and Mickey Mouse catered to the boomers, the generation born after 1945.	1
In a state already gifted with countless blessings, many more came in on a decade-long high tide of creativity and innovation. Expanding technologies reinvented some media and created new forms for delivering entertainment. Hellsapoppin demographics piggybacked on a healthy economy, and folks enjoyed increased leisure time. Youth culture became synonymous with popular culture for the first time—a situation that holds today. Even as times have changed, principle contributions of fifties and sixties pop abide, having become broader cultural icons themselves, and sometimes touchstones of national identity and markers for lifestyle, nostalgia, and ... well ... golden youth.	. . .

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