Happy Days

The American Dream seemed within reach of Rhode Islanders in the '50s, a decade of conformity, family and good times.

For young veterans' families, the new suburbia personified the essential American Dream

Boom town

Photo captions

Seeing spots: In the summer of 1955, the Francis Keeney family show off their Ford Fairlane painted to mimic the spots on their dog, Skipper, outside their home in the Greenwood section of Warwick.
Baby Boom generation: Two teachers handle 60 pupils at the John Brown Francis School, in Warwick, in 1957. There were 16 double classrooms in the city.

--Journal file photos


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