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Everybody Got in the Car and Nobody Asked Where
On a Sunday afternoon, after dinner, somebody said let's go for a drive, and the household got in the…
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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 an American household kept a scrapbook, and what went in it was the evidence that the family existed in the public record.
Clippings from the local…
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They came as a set of four, with a wire rack to stand them in, and they lived in a corner of the living room or behind a…
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In 1974 there was one chair in the American living room that belonged to a person rather than to the house, and every member of the family knew…
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It arrived in an envelope at a birth, a christening, a graduation or a birthday, and it was a piece of engraved paper with your name typed on…