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With the movie theater (walk in or drive in) you can set the era by selecting what movie is on the marquee. On my theater, the movie is "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. That would set the date to sometime in 1952 or early 1953. You could have a gas station with a full service crew working on a 1950's car. Since I was not around then, I am not positive, but I believe many homes were heated with coal, so there should be some sort of storage facility for it. You could build woodsheds for the homes that were heated with wood, too. Either of those would depend upon climate and region. If in a region where coal was used for heating, you could also have a coal dealer on your layout.
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