What is Vanishing Americana?
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A term for Americanisms or inventions that are gradually disappearing, as described in the book "Going Going Gone: Vanishing Americana" by by Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson.
Hood ornaments. Prank phone calls. Phonebooths with doors. Blue laws. Hitchiking. Men's clubs. Garter belts. The 'Red Menace'. Typewriters. Rotary telephones.
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the art of stealing peoples lawn ornaments.
bro jump out the car n steal that fukin gnome... ud just be ill at lawn capping!!
See lawn..
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In the auto and mortgage business, a deal that is never moving forward.
That deal is a Natale Wood...dead in the water.
See dead, reje..
