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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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The surplus store was one of the great American retail oddities: a shop stocked entirely by the fact that the United States had bought staggering quantities of equipment…
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The logging camp was a self-contained settlement built where the timber was, moved when the timber ran out, and run on the understanding that everybody there had come…