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Long-haul trucking in 1975 was at a peculiar high point. The interstate system was essentially complete, freight was moving by road in volumes it never had before, and…
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There is a specific moment, four years after this one, when American wine stopped being a joke - a blind tasting in Paris in 1976 in which French…
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Drag racing was the most accessible motorsport ever invented. The format required a straight piece of tarmac, two cars and somebody to say go, and in the nineteen-sixties…
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For about thirty years roller derby was a fixture of American television and arenas, and then it disappeared so completely that when it came back decades later almost…
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The dude ranch was one of the great American holiday inventions: a working or semi-working ranch in the West that took paying guests for a week or two,…
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Ask an American where they are allowed to cross a road and they will tell you: at the corner, at the crossing, with the signal. Crossing anywhere else…