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Entrepreneurship flourished in the 1930s. The Great Depression threw nearly a quarter of Americans out of work. With little in the way of conventional opportunity available, Americans scraped together what they could and went into business for themselves. Many of the iconic images of roadside Americana come out of this period: drive-in movies, miniature golf, gas stations, and drive-in restaurants sprung up from

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