Could there be anything uglier than the rows of white plastic picket fence posts the city has installed along Telephone Road in Ventura? What an eyesore! We can assume this is the Ventura City ...

Blame the Cold War for doing in the picket fence. Whether seeking security, embracing new technology or dodging a tedious paint job, many ’50s-era suburbanites chain-linked their lots.

White picket fence. That's the kind of life my mother always dreamed about. "From the time I was 16, all I wanted was your father and a home," she tells me. "All I've ever wanted was a family." ...

The American Dream consisted of a white picket fence around a private yard, 2.4 children in the home and a nice car or two. Today, the dream is changing.

A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...