Evinrude Motors Marine Service, Waterfront, 1950s

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Evinrude Motors Marine Service, Waterfront, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Somewhere on a calm inland lake or bay in the 1950s, a small marine dealership sits at the water's edge with the quiet confidence of a business that has correctly identified the moment. The sign reads Evinrude Motors — the outboard engine brand that sold postwar Americans on the idea that leisure was now an obligation, not a luxury — and the low white building stretches along a modest dock that could handle the aspirations of an entire county's worth of weekend boaters. Someone pulled up by water, pointed a camera from the bow of their own newly-acquired craft, and recorded the place they'd just bought the motor that made this outing possible, which is the most 1950s possible reason to take a photograph. The treeline behind the building is thick and undeveloped, the way shorelines still looked before the next decade's vacation-home subdivisions arrived to civilise them. The whole operation has the look of a business that will be very busy on Saturdays and locked tight by Tuesday, which is exactly how the American leisure economy was supposed to work.

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