Wow--talk about true preservationist ethos--Let's bring back outhouses and be truly historically correct! (Actually, as near as I can tell indoor plumbing, or at least off the back porch, has been the case since our house was built.) This can't have been the case for the whole neighborhood, I suspect though.
years ago, when I worked with ted hershberg on the philadelphia social history project, we saw how the development and population of germantown followed sewer lines (as well as trolley lines) -- ie, a 'build it and they will come' model of urban development... I'm wondering if this here historic streetcar suburb we live in developed along the same lines...
......... laserbeam� [aka ray] (yikes, think of the names of cafes we could come up with)
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