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Michael Barnes's avatar

I have a quibble regarding this statement: " Suburbs were an upper-class luxury until after World War II, when the mass production of housing and federal financing of mortgages made single-family suburban life possible for most people — at least for most white people."

This ignores the much earlier expansion of "trolley car" or "street car" neighborhoods. I live in a working-class bungalow build in 1926 in the North Berkeley/Albany area. My house is two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,100 square-foot stucco box (after a laundry room addition). The street cars used to run across the Bay Bridge, allowing for the first pre-WWII wave of suburbanization.

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I used to think that photographers needed to know how to use manual settings on a camera, but the next generation probably doesn't. So while I hear the "Zoom can't give you body language cues and connections" argument often from boomers, I wonder if millennials and gen Z zoomers, would even recognize body language if their entire experience is on-screen. Human connection may not matter to a generation that only connects by manipulating glass.

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