Beauty through the ages

I think this brief comparison will provide much documentary evidence that as a society we are on an irreversable cultural decline.

Compare the ideal of beauty from today (courtesy that toilet rag of a magazine, Maxim)...

with this lovely visage from the 1950s (of starlet Debra Paget):



I know which era I prefer.

Let's do architecture now!!

The 1930s, please:



Now an average item of today's commercial architecture:



Auto mall hell. I hear the jungle drums bleating louder now.