I've linked to this before but he has redone his site and some old sections are gone while new sections have arrived.

Lileks.com

Scenes from an alternate universe. The ad copy begins this way:

It's a pretty good sign, when you see a pram parade lined up outside a store, that mothers are inside doing a smart bit of shopping. --Life, 1950

This is the sort of image that makes no sense today, no sense at all. The idea that women would leave their kids outside the grocery store - well, you might as well send out invitations to all the creeps & tot snatchers. But obviously things were different in 1950, or this ad would have struck the majority of Life subscribers as ludicrous nonsense.