The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was lost.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Erma Bombeck, (Feb 21 1927-1996), US journalist, author, humorist; She dealt humorously with her life as a suburban housewife, e.g., The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank, 1976.