Era changeovers

History books rarely capture these times. I remember once my father telling me of a trip to Mexico his family took when he was just 10, with a hired "driver" who called my dad's Superman action figure "Super Hombre". They were a working class family so it was a surprise to hear of such a luxury spend. They'd hired the driver because my grandmother's mother, who was lively intelligent and living with them, had just died, giving my grandmother freedom and a retroactive yearning for it. Also WWII had just ended.

With that latter fact dispensed by my dad, everything linked up again in my mind. E.B. White wrote a famous essay that's now published in hardcover titled "Here is New York". The essay was originally commissioned in 1947 by Holiday magazine (where White's stepson Roger Angell was a junior editor) which served a travel boom audience.


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Further Reading:

How Venture Capitalists are Deforming Capitalism:   newyorker.com

What if Trump won’t leave the White House? A hostage negotiator, an animal-control officer, and a toddler whisperer have advice:   bostonglobe.com

"But the essential fever of New York has not changed in any particular, and I have not tried to make revisions in the hope of bringing the thing down to date."   books.google.com





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