Hackers' Pub

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`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name

9/18/2025, 2:00:06 PM

Public

Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats

Link: https://casualarchivist.substack.com/p/order-up
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265487

Order Up

Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats. Most of these date from the late 1940s through the ’50s, when the postwar boom and expanding highway system put long-distance vacations within reach for a growing middle class in both the US and Canada.

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