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In 1964 a child could draw a hopscotch court from memory, run jacks past tensies, call a counting-out rhyme, turn a double rope in rhythm and name the…
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Walk into an antique shop in almost any part of the United States and there is a decent chance of finding a tall wooden cabinet with pierced tin…
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Every autumn through the middle of the twentieth century, American banks and savings institutions mailed out millions of cheques.
They were Christmas club cheques, and each one represented…
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If you are American and over a certain age, you have slept under one. A heavy cotton bedspread with raised fuzzy tufting standing up off the surface in…
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It looks like a tennis racket made by somebody who had only heard a description of one. A long handle, usually wood or twisted wire, opening into a…
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In 1964 the sound of rain on a tin roof was simply the ordinary experience of being inside a cheaply built American building.
It was not tin. It…