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Walk through two American towns and the hydrants will not match. One place has red ones, another yellow, another silver, and in a great many places the body…
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Nobody likes a parking meter. It is probably the least loved piece of street furniture ever invented, it is universally understood as a device for extracting money from…
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A newsstand was a very small business in a very small building, and in American cities there were thousands of them - on corners, outside stations, in hotel…
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The rented room was one of the great staples of American housing for a century, and in 1958 it was still everywhere. Large old houses near city centres,…
The height is the mechanism, not the storage. Here are sixteen.
1. The Height Is the Pressure
Water pressure at a tap comes from the vertical distance down from the…
Somebody laid it, and then everybody dug it up. Here are ten.
1. Large Rectangular Slabs Mean Somebody Was Spending
Big sawn stone flags were expensive and were laid where…