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Amateur radio in 1965 was the only way an ordinary person could build a machine on their kitchen table and use it to talk to a stranger six…
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The home party is remembered as a joke: a living room of women, a demonstration, some faintly humiliating games and a catalogue. It is one of the most…
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Marching band in 1972 was a military activity wearing a school's colours. The drill came from the parade ground, the discipline came from the parade ground, and the…
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The sporting goods shop of 1968 was a general store for everything a person did outdoors or on a field, run by somebody who had done most of…
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Organised youth baseball was at its absolute peak in the late nineteen-sixties. Nearly every American town had a programme, the fields were busy every evening from spring to…
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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…