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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 1964 a great many American farms still kept their milk cold in a small stone building down the hill, with a stream running through the floor of…
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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 1964 the big theater downtown was still a palace, and the word was literal. Four thousand seats in one room. A lobby the size of a ballroom.…
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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,…
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In 1964 going a long way in America still meant a train, and the train was a graded hotel that moved.
A redcap took your bags at the…