stackyFACTSElectric grids eventually ruined this highly romanticized, exhausting job. Individuals armed with long poles and wicks walked miles of dusky streets every single evening to spark the gas lamps. They then had to repeat the entire massive trek at dawn just to extinguish them again.
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