Reminds me of a passage in Jo Walton’s most excellent book that i’m currently reading - Or What You Will.
Nobody ever knows what’s coming. It’s easy to lose sight of that looking backwards, when it all has the air of inevitability, but the future lying before the people of the past was just as dark and impossible for them to penetrate as your future is to you. Abelard, in 1200, did not think there were only another two hundred and fifty years to go before Gutenberg, any more than you think of the vast blankness that are the events of 2268.
Cross-post from BLM thread…
Well, not that intact
Intact and in good condition to an archaeologist, not so much to a sailor. 
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During her research Gwen says she discovered how difficult it was for the women to return to normal life after the war.
“They looked gaunt and terrible, and there was a kind of a shame around being a woman that was in a camp and… a kind of loneliness too,” says Gwen.
“They were so close as a group and suddenly they’re dispersed with people they can’t talk to, people that don’t want to hear it. So I think it must have been really psychologically isolating. I think it’s like PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), but unrecognised, because they [were] not considered soldiers.”
As young women, they were often told after the war to keep their stories quiet, so their heroism went unrecognised, says Gwen.
Featuring interviews with famous fans like Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Carl Reiner, and Colin Powell!
“ The automats were positioned as a technological advancement at the turn of the century, and continued to feed the masses at a low cost during the Great Depression. By World War II, Horn & Hardart’s centralized commissary kitchens could handle the scale of feeding literal armies.”
“ Lacking a modern equivalent
Watching Ginsburg and Powell reminisce about their mutual love of creamed spinach and listening to Brooks’ literally sing Horn & Hardart’s praises — he created an original musical number for the movie, called “At the Automat”‘ — might have you pining for something that’s before your time. Don’t be surprised if this documentary leaves you with some serious FOMO.”
“ The automat was considered an equalizer among social classes, as Horn & Hardart’s philosophy was to serve everyone, and serve them all the same way.
Ginsburg recalls how average people would dine next to “matrons in fur.” Former Mayor Wilson Goode, Philadelphia’s first black mayor who served during the MOVE bombings, credits the Horn & Hardart at 15th and Market as being the place where the city’s Black political movement was born, referring to it as “a nice place where African Americans could go and feel dignified.”
That looks amazing…
A kiss may be grand… but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat
Or help you at the automat
This month we said farewell to Emilio Delgado, “Luis” from the original cast of Sesame Street at the age of 81
Biblical history, but a good read for anyone:
Interesting take on the need for narrative and reclaiming history for the left.
