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...them off it. Summerthing ignored the Council's request, as did Harvard. And the merchants, not satisfied, came together again the following Wednesday to try to find out a way to get back to the profitable Cambridge they had known. Stores like Krackerjacks, J. August, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bobbi Baker Ltd. had been hit hard. Krackerjacks had lost $2400 in windows, and as its manager said, "You have to sell a lot of bluejeans to make up for that." Many of these were little stores, not parts of chains, without big capital to build them back up if they...
...long can we be passive and turn the other cheek when we get hit?" Bobbi Baker asked, and a lot of the merchants agreed. Jim Jacobs, owner of J. August, said, "I'm not talking about killing the grass, just getting rid of the weeds, that...
...Some merchants attended Monday's City Council meeting to demand action. More came to a private meeting called by Bobbi Baker Wednesday night. "It was a meeting of neighbors, not the formation of a committee. People affected were invited to come and exchange sad experiences," says Jim Jacobs...
...Bobbi Baker says, "there's been anamazing change in the Square in the five years we've been here. There's twice the shoplifting And nobody who doesn't live here will come in to shop." Alexander Zavelle, manager of the Coop, says that the Coop gets calls all the time from people wanting to know whether it's safe to come in shopping...
...tell you this," says Bobbi Baker, "I'd like to see the 99 per cent of kids stand up and be counted against that one per cent violent types. Like the Silent Majority. Where are the flower people now? Throwing bricks. Why did it happen? Why did Hitler happen? People are sheep: they're lax." But Bobbi Baker has stood up and been counted, and she feels better...