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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...
...Hospital. There, 70 automated, self-propelled carts recently began doing everything from delivering meals and surgical equipment to carrying off dirty linens and wastes. To prevent the spread of germs from one area of the hospital to another, the carts are programmed to return directly to an automatic sterilizing "carwash" after each delivery or pickup. The automated orderlies can electronically signal the hospital's elevators and ride up and down by themselves...
...book continues with examples of the everyday scenes that hardly anyone stops to notice: a defacing web of electric and telephone wires across California's lovely Owens Valley, an empty parking lot behind a blank-walled movie theater in Paramus, N.J., an ugly carwash building in Lorain, Ohio. Each photo is as carefully composed as a painting by Edward Hopper, and disappointment clearly shows in each. Turning to the great achievements of the past, Plowden finds little consolation. The splendid ferries and mighty iron bridges that he loves to photograph are obsolescent and vanishing. In Lordville, N.Y., he shows...