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Interesting time capsule history of Ray Kroc’s era! Particularly interesting when hearing Kroc’s recollection of entering a music parlour in the 1920s and calling it gaudy looking like the fashion of the 90s (only for me to later realise he meant the 1890s!!)

Really interesting also hearing about nuances of that era, eg the Florida land boom and bust and the pre Depression era events

Started reading this as an annual Halloween classic read
So good so far

Really fascinating so far, from the ancient Hellenistic period and then the multiple failed revival attempts across the late 1700s/early 1800s, each one failing. Fascinating especially with the Paris Olympics starting to see one such failed attempts was during Revolutionary Paris where they were changing to the metric system and thought of the idea to do the Olympics every 4 years on leap years!

What a journey

Damn 🫥