Chris-Craft: The Affordable Dream
The Affordable Dream

The Affordable Dream
Chris-Craft, Miami, Florida, 1925
The Mariners' Museum Chris-Craft Collection
PI 6560


In the 1920s, American productivity and incomes were up, and a torrent of new goods and conveniences--roadsters and runabouts, radios and installment buying--beckoned to the affluent and the growing middle class. Advertising came into its own as brash and sophisticated campaigns promised that consumption would bring happiness and social success.

Americans fell in love with speed and style--and Chris-Crafts. The beautiful, affordable new runabouts took Florida by storm, and the rest of the nation followed soon after.

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Date created: February 1999
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