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Summary: Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks
Review: This is a well researched book that kept me involved and thinking. As one from the midwest and born post-boom (1966), I accept the challenge Dr. Hurley offers about society. Are diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks just kitch or are they still valid measurements of social class? As a person born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Rockford, Illinois and attended college in St. Louis, Misouri,I do not know if I should be flattered or insulted by the references to these cities. I find this a quandary because I know the information presented it is true. This book makes me reflect on my own Ellis Island imigrant heritage. How did I not grow up at the diner, bowling alley or trailer park? I feel a bit sorry I did not.
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Summary: Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks
Review: This is a well researched book that kept me involved and thinking. As one from the midwest and born post-boom (1966), I accept the challenge Dr. Hurley offers about society. Are diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks just kitch or are they still valid measurements of social class? As a person born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Rockford, Illinois and attended college in St. Louis, Misouri,I do not know if I should be flattered or insulted by the references to these cities. I find this a quandary because I know the information presented it is true. This book makes me reflect on my own Ellis Island imigrant heritage. How did I not grow up at the diner, bowling alley or trailer park? I feel a bit sorry I did not.
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