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Study for memory lane

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Door-suburb, 1999

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Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes

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A Midwestern boyhood

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The Balkanization of suburbia

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“Nice, huh? It’s plastic.”

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The new world (plastic) promise

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After hours — From the February 1958 issue

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The big change in suburbia

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The big change in suburbia (part I)

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