The Last Table Leaves. The Kitchen Starts Its Second Shift
Closing shift is a handoff. A labeled container, stocked station, or clean towel can make tomorrow’s first hour easier for the cook who arrives next.
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For twenty-three years, he has been the only person in America still making a part for a dryer that stopped being manufactured in 1978.
A retired machinist in Missoula has, for twenty-three years, been the only person in the country still making one small brass gear for a clothes dryer that stopped being manufactured in 1978. He makes them in his garage, one at a time, for fourteen dollars. About eleven hundred people have kept a discontinued appliance running because of him. He is seventy-eight, and he intends to keep going until he can’t.
