...these are the kinds of images (and sounds--it's Miles Davis playing "It Never Entered My Mind") which make me feel nostalgic for such a time. One of my answers to the question: When and where would you go if you had an actual TARDIS? has long been: The late '40s, Los Angeles...
(I always feel the need to qualify that, however, by saying I recognize I'm saying it as a white, heterosexual male. If I weren't all three of those things it's quite probable I would feel differently)
Oh, and h/t M. Evanier.