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 The End of the Bonfire Clare Briggs May 9, 2025 White Sox Practice Cleaning Up on Cleveland Team Clare Briggs May 8, 2025 Semiotics Clare Briggs May 7, 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