2 thoughts on “A Late Drink of Water

  1. Costco Bottled Water is a miracle.

    And getting up to run the water in the bathroom until the cold water shows up was a miracle within living memory for everybody in that cartoon.Report

    1. most “cityfolk” (or middle class and up cityfolk) had indoor running water since the 1840s-50s.

      http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1325.html
      https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/history-of-new-york-citys-drinking-water.page

      (probably the biggest enabler of suburbanization in the 20th century was not the automobile*, but the willingness to put ‘city water’ in relatively low density housing tracts.)

      *in that streetcars were creating suburbs a generation earlier.Report

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