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It Was a Roof on Posts Stuck to the Side of the House
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Attached to the end of the house, running out toward the driveway, there…
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In 1974 canning season was not a plan. It was something that happened to a household when ninety pounds of tomatoes ripened at once and had to be…
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In 1974 a broken window in an American house was an errand, not a project. You measured the opening, wrote it on a scrap of paper, drove into…
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In 1974 an American household had a shelf of things for when the power went out, and every item on it had been thought about.
A kerosene lamp,…
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In 1974 the flashlight in an American kitchen drawer was a metal tube that weighed a pound, ran on two expensive cells, and produced about twenty feet of…
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In 1974 a great many American households had no gas main and no intention of getting one. They had a white steel tank on blocks in the yard,…