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For families in 1975, the weekend had a comforting rhythm, and dad was often at the center of it with a set of rituals so reliable you could…
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The holiday itself has not changed. The same date, the same bird, the same arithmetic of too many people in a house built for fewer.
What has changed…
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An apprenticeship in the machine trades in 1965 was a four-year indenture at deliberately low pay, served in a shop where the training was informal, the guarding was…
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Caddying in 1962 was one of the great summer jobs, and almost every element of it is now impossible. A boy of twelve or fourteen turned up at…
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In 1955 coal mining employed hundreds of thousands of people and killed several hundred of them a year. The work was done largely by hand, the roof was…
Everybody has noticed it. The little pocket sewn inside the right front pocket of a pair of jeans, roughly two and a half inches deep, too small for a phone…