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Breakfast, Slightly Ahead of Its Time

Reality Called In Sick

Five details in the 1958 diner belong to a later era.

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Three intruders are things you would notice from the door: something written up high, something glowing on a shelf, and something in a customer’s hand. The Date Check page (page 36) names all the categories.

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Read the specials board slowly: one fruit had a different name in 1958. And look at the shelf: one lamp is from 1963. Three more: a phone, a bin, a can.

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  • The smartphone taking a photo of the pancakes · 2007
  • KIWIFRUIT on the specials board · 1959
  • The recycling symbol on the bin · 1970
  • The lava lamp on the shelf · 1963
  • The pull-tab drink can · 1959

The paper straw is fine: patented in 1888.

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Everything in the document on one timeline. Yellow dots arrived too late.

  1. 1888The paper drinking strawFine
    Marvin Stone was granted a patent for the paper straw in 1888.Source: Marvin Stone patent
  2. 1958 · the document is dated here
  3. 1959KIWIFRUIT on the specials boardNot yet
    New Zealand exporters adopted the name “kiwifruit” in 1959; before that it was the Chinese gooseberry.Source: Turners & Growers history
  4. 1959The pull-tab drink canNot yet
    Ermal Fraze invented the pull-tab can end in 1959; it spread in the early 1960s.Source: Wikipedia, “Pull tab”
  5. 1963The lava lamp on the shelfNot yet
    Edward Craven Walker’s Astro lamp went on sale in 1963.Source: Mathmos
  6. 1970The recycling symbol on the binNot yet
    Gary Anderson designed the three-arrow symbol for a 1970 student contest.Source: Gary Anderson
  7. 2007The smartphone taking a photo of the pancakesNot yet
    The touchscreen iPhone with a camera arrived in 2007.Source: Apple

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