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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…
The American roadside mailbox is such a fixed feature of the landscape that it reads as a natural object. It is on a wooden post, it has a curved top…
Most Americans drive on these roads for a lifetime without discovering that the numbers mean something. They are treated as names - arbitrary labels that happen to be numerals.
They…