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He renewed it for another week.

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A coffee stand that offers coffee to the poor for one penny, 1933.

The St. Andrew’s Hospital One-Cent Coffee Stand Society had been active since well before the Depression, offering food as well as coffee to the indigent. It also provided full meals on Thanksgiving.

Photo: Austrian Archives (S)/Imagno/Getty Images

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if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

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In one week! Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait at Chicago Artisan Market! 

Tix and more info here! 

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It’ll be fun they said, Peter Bogaczewicz

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“The City from Greenwich Village” by John Sloan, 1922.

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March 1939 - Signs in front of highway tavern. Crystal City, Texas

And, somewhere back there amid the signage, a gas station. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for th Farm Security Administration, via shorpy.com

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“To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.”

— Susan Sontag, ‘Literature is Freedom,’ in At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (209)

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Make it bigger, Rafael Serra

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Nowhere to hide, Ashley Gilbertson

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Hollywood, Eric Nash (because)