Word: boardwalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food stalls and restaurants. Within four years of its opening in 1976, Faneuil Hall was drawing 15 million visitors annually. It inspired Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland"), but it helped revitalize Baltimore's downtown and secured Rouse's place as the most influential urban developer of his time...
...holds his head in his hands for half an hour or so, a fan can wander off for such ballpark staples as hot dogs and popcorn or have a trick picture taken that shows himself or herself sitting across the table from Kasparov. The show is part chessboard, part boardwalk...
Recently, she tried to disguise herself to go walking along the Atlantic City boardwalk, she said. Even so, people recognized her and came up to her to wish her good luck...
...pageant began in 1921 as a bathing-beauty contest on the Atlantic City, N.J., boardwalk...
Even in Venice, California, with its bizarre assortment of skaters, body builders and semi-nude exhibitionists crowding the famed boardwalk, the building at 340 Main Street is an attention grabber. The three-story edifice, headquarters of the Chiat/Day advertising agency, is wrapped in brick beams and topped by a concrete slab, and its entrance is straddled by a pair of 100- ft.-tall black binoculars. Inside, the building is even more remarkable. Gone are the choice corner offices where agency executives once held forth, the cubicles once occupied by their secretaries, the once ubiquitous rows of filing cabinets. Executive chairs...