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Crumbling white lagging, a side of beef, and a bar nobody ever used. Here are seventeen.
1. A Furnace Wrapped in White Tape That Nobody Was Allowed to…
The American roadside mailbox is such a fixed feature of the landscape that it reads as a natural object. It is on a wooden post, it has a curved top…
Americans visiting Europe discover that food scraps go in a bin, and Europeans visiting America discover a switch on the wall that makes a noise like a small industrial accident…
An American arriving in Italy or France in August and discovering that the windows have shutters, glass and nothing else is reliably astonished. An Italian arriving in Ohio and finding…
Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
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All quarters, nobody working there, and a floor built to flood. Here are eleven.
1. The Machines Took Quarters and Nothing Else
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Every machine was coin-operated, the slide…