Essayist Gerard Van Der Leun is now in his 70s. He is a Baby Boomer and grew up in the postwar prosperity of Los Angeles. When he was a little boy, his family moved to the scenic mountains of the town of Paradise in noth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/05/What-Should-Young-Boys-Do-When-They-Discover-A-Box-of-Dynamite/Some time in the 1980s, an unknown artist started leaving tiles embedded in asphalt roads. These tiles were later determined to be made of mostly linoleum and tar, and they were first left in Philadelphia, then in cities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/05/Whos-Behind-the-Mysterious-Toynbee-Tiles/Embed from Getty ImagesIf you think a mortgage is onerous today, the terms of early mortgages were downright frightful. While the concept has its origins in Persia thousands of years ago, the Romans refined it and took...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/05/The-Ancient-Roots-of-the-Home-Mortgage/You've heard of the Irish goodbye, which is where you leave a party without telling anyone. It's not really Irish, and it was most likely universally developed to avoid the Midwest goodbye. In this skit from Charlie Bere...
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