Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water gone. It has been a long and arduous journey; now the rewards are at hand. The nuclear family is about to start a week of nuclear camping. The camp includes: a swimming pool, a laundromat, a supermarket, a billiard academy, a miniature golf course, and fence-to-fence asphalt and plastic grass...
...traffic-jammed freeway, exhaust smoke billowing into the air, while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...
...almost unbelievable that people come here in such numbers," he says. "Perhaps it's because people raising families can't afford hotels. We are really one of the greatest baby-sitting organizations in the country." Ever since Campland opened two years ago, says Willis, its steaming asphalt expanse has been chockablock full. Now, with its success assured, he plans to branch out to Mexico, where a network of 22 Camplands is scheduled to rise over the next several years. After that, it can be only a matter of time before someone decides to pave over Colorado...
...years before all of the flashy asphalt art yields to nature and government. Advertisers can still erect their jumbo signs 660 feet from federally aided roads. Besides, any company that loses a billboard can buy it back and replant it elsewhere. Thus billboards could come to resemble the traveling hucksters of an earlier America, always one step ahead...
More than 31 wineries have been started or revived within the past three years, mostly by affluent executives. For example, W.E. van Loben Sels, 52, turned over his asphalt business to his son and founded Oakville Vineyards in the Napa Valley, a prime wine area north of San Francisco. Russell Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap...