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The "Frost Bar" is a neat idea, which, according to Google, has only been tried once since. I don't see why -- leaving super-cooled ice out for your customers to lean on as they approach their drunken stupors, allowing ample time to cause frostbite, sounds like fun. Triple-dog dares probably are the reason there's so many ninety-year-olds in Amsterdam with excessive lisps.

However -- the magazine debuts something I never knew existed...a "car-washery"?!? And I thought driving around in the rain was enough. When we think of car inventions, we don't look beyond the mechanics between the bumpers...we forget the cultural artifacts we had to create just to fit cars into our lives.

And, lastly, you'd think the 'gas saving devices' at the bottom of the page had something to do with cars. Sadly, in the 1930s people used gasoline to make their Kool-Aid because it was cheaper than using water (my, how times change!) The gas they're using is actually more 'gas-like' than what we call gas. No wonder the Brits call it petrol, but I digress. Someone decided it was a good idea to control and limit the amount of poisonous gas piped into the households of America. So forward-thinking they were back then.

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