Playtime!: Americans at Leisure (Harvest/HBJ Book)

From $58.3 billion in 1965 to $160 billion in 1977, Leisure spending rose on a steady curve through Vietnam, an oil embargo, runaway inflation, an energy crisis, unemployment, and a recession. In fact, whenever a crisis arose, spending for fun became even more frenzied in an effort to spend while one still could. -Mark Jury 1977