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The rented room was one of the great staples of American housing for a century, and in 1958 it was still everywhere. Large old houses near city centres,…
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There were well over a million dairy farms in the United States in 1960, most of them family operations with twenty or thirty cows, worked twice a day…
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The portrait studio was a serious small business in 1962 America. Every town had at least one, the photographer was a tradesman with real technical training, and the…
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Crumbling white lagging, a side of beef, and a bar nobody ever used. Here are seventeen.
1. A Furnace Wrapped in White Tape That Nobody Was Allowed to…
There is a horizontal bar across almost every exit door in a public American building. You have pushed thousands of them without looking at one.
It is worth looking, because…
Hold a block of supermarket cheddar next to a block of English or Irish cheddar and one of them is a colour that does not occur in dairy. It is…