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The American national parks of the mid-nineteen-sixties were enormously popular, newly accessible by interstate highway, and run on a philosophy that is now almost unrecognisable. The job of…
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A newsstand was a very small business in a very small building, and in American cities there were thousands of them - on corners, outside stations, in hotel…
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By 1962 the great era of the American tented circus was ending but had not ended. Shows still travelled, still raised canvas in a field on the edge…
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The American health club of 1979 sat between two eras. The old figure-salon model - passive machines, steam, massage, the promise that something would be done to you…
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The television repairman was one of the most familiar tradesmen in mid-century America, because a television of that era was a machine with dozens of components that wore…
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The rented room was one of the great staples of American housing for a century, and in 1958 it was still everywhere. Large old houses near city centres,…