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New York’s Elevators Define The City

By Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight

Google Rebranding by Dana Kim

n.296 | Often Minimal

by Memory Coco, 2015

Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963. Photograph by Robert B. Goodman, National Geographic Creative

Les Revenants (The Returned)

“They’re going to get their revenge one day, the dead”

Peter Saville for Lacoste

Jim Crow segregation meant that African American travelers couldn’t count on the typical parts of a road trip: filling the tank at a gas station, grabbing a bite at a restaurant, or staying the night in a motel. This book mapped out a safe route of accommodations, and came out every year from 1937 through 1964.

Its 1948 edition contained this quote from publishers Victor and Alma Green:

“There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States. It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication for then we can go wherever we please, and without embarrassment.”

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