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...Coca-Cola, but the trend is clearly toward shifting even more of the financial burden to them. So California Adventure offers more brand names than Macy's: the Golden Vine Winery and tasting room sponsored by Robert Mondavi, a sourdough breadmaking factory from Boudin Bakery and the Avalon Cove restaurant of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, to name...
Even when convinced that the Tuscan hills or a British Columbia cove is just the place for you, never buy a house on impulse. Before even considering such a commitment, rent for a while. You may find that you much prefer another area of the country or that you are better off renting. If you choose to buy, find a good attorney who can explain everything from financing options to clarity of title...
...second decade of the 20th, the advent of the lift allowed 13-story blocks. Finally, the repealing of the 150-ft (46-m) height restriction in 1957 saw the fiercest frenzy of redevelopment and the erection of the skyscrapers that now mark the CBD. The Rocks area of Sydney Cove, thronged with tourists buying opals and boomerangs, and an aesthetic and financial delight to the city fathers, was saved from destruction in the early 1970s only through the intervention of the Builders' Labourers Federation and its members' "green ban" refusal to perform demolition work. The old buildings of Woolloomooloo...
...national parks preserve the country as it would have appeared to early settlers in all its intimidating vastness; and even closer in, much of the harbor's 250 km of foreshore is blessedly protected, so that at North and Middle Heads, at Bradleys Head, in the valleys of Lane Cove, along the mangrove swamps of the river near Parramatta or in the upper reaches of Middle Harbour, you can fancy yourself back in the time before European settlement...
...city center has been so zealously made over by each generation that little remains of the early buildings of Sydney Cove. Traces linger-Argyle Place in Millers Point and Susannah Place in The Rocks date from the early 19th century; further west, toward Parramatta, now the demographic center of Greater Sydney, stand Australia's only 18th century buildings, Elizabeth Farm and Experiment Farm Cottage. It seems miraculous that any of them have survived so many waves of reinvention...