Toys made of plastic were rare before World War II. Their late twentieth century ubiquity came to symbolize the excess of consumer society.
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The Poet (Andy 1)
In the 1960s, most soda pop was sold in reusable glass bottles, but in the 1970s these were replaced by cans and plastic. The last Coca Cola plant to produce reusable bottles closed in 2012.
After this podcast was produced, I also learned that Coke had ended production of Tab.
An Art Form (James 12)
Back in 2006, Alison S. M. Kobayashi produced a video based on an answering machine tape she found in a thrift shop.
I don’t want a girlfriend (Chris 17)
Moses Asch created Folkways Records in 1948 to document the beautiful and extraordinary diversity of human expression through sound.
Happy Birthday (Brian 5)
From Chicago’s Maxwell Street to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, it can be a dog eat dog world.
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