A Late Drink of Water It happens in the best regulated families Clare Briggs September 7, 2021 2 Continue Reading Previous: The History of Labor DayNext: Coronavirus Grant Documents Revealed Through FOIA: Read Them For Yourself 2 thoughts on “A Late Drink of Water” 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 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 Comments are closed. Related Stories Holing a Mashie Shot Clare Briggs April 17, 2025 Punchable Faces, 1914 Clare Briggs April 16, 2025 Movie of a Man Who has Indulged in Too Much Black Coffee Clare Briggs April 15, 2025
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
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
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
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