Word: carwash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
...ornament, which can cost as much as $160 and take half a day. The process, called detailing, has long been employed by used-car dealers to prepare old models for their lots, and is now offered by more than 4,000 shops across the nation, according to the California Carwash Association...
...Miami. Though he divorced his wife Frederica in 1978, he remained close to her and their two daughters, Shederica, 9, and Dewana, 2, and he planned to remarry her later this year. "Duff," as friends called him, often took on odd jobs -managing a rock-soul band, running a carwash business -for extra money. "He was always working," said Frederica. "He dreamed of retiring...