Outrageous-Door8924

Outrageous-Door8924 t1_jd9wlfz wrote

Was there ever a whole wall of stone on Wall Street?

I'm obviously daft, because I just finished reading the final part of this 5-part article on the history of the wall on Wall Street, and I'm still not sure. The author makes it clear that the final wall had bastions of stone, but what about the rest of the wall? (Originally, the wall was wooden, but it underwent many changes, as mentioned in earlier parts of the article.)

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Outrageous-Door8924 t1_jaxm682 wrote

How were restaurants made "more accessible to the middle class [and not just the wealthy]" after the Great Depression and WW2?

This comment by a deleted account over on Ask Historians mentions that era as the time when France lost ground as the capitol of restaurants and fine dining, while, simultaneously, the restaurant industry in America became more accessible to the middle class.

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Outrageous-Door8924 OP t1_jajdgg8 wrote

It is true, that most of these "SuperFacts" and "Fact of the Day" style accounts post a lot of claims without any source or substance. However, as I mention in my comment on this thread, I checked all the others. And to my surprise, all of them (except for one) are true, no matter how dumd they may seem today.

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Outrageous-Door8924 OP t1_j9w73g1 wrote

I had a hunch that the answer would be, "It's not entirely black and white", but felt like asking anyway, because I'm not at all operating in the field of law myself. Thanks for explaining and confirming.

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