Checked Street View to see if any houses in my home town still had hitching posts and raised, concrete platforms next to the street. This is across the street from where I grew up.
My Rotary club bought "expired" tetracycline for pennies on the dollar. Sent it to San Salvador and saved thousands of lives after rebels destroyed water and sewage plants.
My Great-Uncle owed a deli. For those of you who are uninformed, that means a local establishment that sold all the ingredients for making sandwich as well as sandwiches themselves.
He bought so much wax paper prior to WWII that the family was still using it in the 70s. Why? Cellophane made it obsolete. Had his brand on it, however.
The wall and the trashcan look like the result of a nearby fire. Notice the discolored ground and that the other parts of the wall are just fine. The heat might have been a contributing factor.
The slouched mailbox could be real, however. Plastic does not have to melt to lose its structural integrity, just get to its Glass Transition Temperature. For example, Nylon can buckle at 120F.
He bought so much wax paper prior to WWII that the family was still using it in the 70s. Why? Cellophane made it obsolete. Had his brand on it, however.
This semi-anonymous, young man delves into primitive technologies demonstrating how it could have been done 5,000 years ago.
The slouched mailbox could be real, however. Plastic does not have to melt to lose its structural integrity, just get to its Glass Transition Temperature. For example, Nylon can buckle at 120F.