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They stood everywhere. Drug stores, railway stations, bus depots, department store entrances, barber shops, amusement piers, five and dimes. A tall column, frequently white porcelain over cast iron,…
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Anybody who was taken into a large American store before about 1960 remembers at least one version of it.
A clerk takes your money, writes out a slip,…
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There is a tool hanging in a great many American barns and garages that looks like it ought to be simple and is not. A long flexible steel…
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In 1964 the planting right against the door of a house was flowers, and it was kept strictly separate from the vegetables, which were out back in rows.…
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There is a structure that appears in almost every old American garden book and essentially never in a modern one, and it is one of the cleverest things…
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In a great many American families there is one photograph that is older than all the others and physically different from them. It is small, it is on…