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 "id": "hand-lettered-board",
 "type": "art",
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  "name": "The hand-lettered board",
  "aliases": [
   "the menu board",
   "marker on card"
  ],
  "said": "Prices in marker, taped over the last prices."
 },
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  "us"
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 "facets": {
  "kind": "sign"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The menu written by hand — on card, on a whiteboard, on the glass — and updated by writing over it.",
  "story": "*Inference —* a hand-lettered board is the tell of a shop that changes what it sells faster than it can order signage: the egg rolls, the boba, the burrito and the kolache arrive on card taped beneath the printed donut list. This project reads boards this way; it is not a cited finding.\n\nThe printed panel above usually carries what the shop has always sold, and the card below carries what is keeping it open.",
  "today": "The board is where a directory should look first for what a shop actually does now."
 },
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   "as": "What tends to be written on the card.",
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   "as": "The shops it is found in.",
   "rel": "style"
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  {
   "to": "the-case",
   "as": "What the board describes.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
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    "tier": "tradition"
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 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "The menu written by hand — on card, on a whiteboard, on the glass — and updated by writing over it.",
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   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
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   "as": "What tends to be written on the card.",
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  {
   "to": "socal-pink-box",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "The Southern California pink box",
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   "title": "Pink Box — this project's own reasoning",
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   "tier": "inference",
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   "tier": "inference",
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   "tier": "inference",
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