And now some words from Vinnie to end this post:

*** Visual elements combined with the scripts help actors understand a period before almost all of them were born, Kartheiser says. "The writing gives you an idea of how people think and feel. The props and outfits give an idea about how society behaved and the style and manners of the era. It definitely helps you drop into a world." (source)

*** Vincent Kartheiser, who portrays Pete Campbell, an ambitious young account executive, was doubling as armchair sociologist today, and explained the popularity of a series that depicts America’s optimistic New Frontier era as rotten at its core. “There is a large portion of America that doesn’t feel about America the way we did in 1960, and I think we want to know why we don’t,” said Mr. Kartheiser, 29. “We want to know what went wrong.” (source)