I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.
I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.
