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In 1965 a brewery employed its own coopers to build the barrels, kept horses to deliver the beer, gave every worker a daily allowance of beer to drink…
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A mixed veterinary practice in 1965 made its living from farm animals, saw pets in a brief evening surgery, and was run by one or two men who…
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In 1960 almost every town had a watchmaker, and he was the person who kept the most precise machine most households owned in working order.
He stripped watches…
Sewn into the seam of every mattress and every upholstered chair is a white tag covered in small print, and somewhere in that print is a sentence along the lines…
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An older relative calls the television remote the clicker, and the word sounds like nostalgia for a sound that modern remotes do not make.
It is not nostalgia.…
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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…