Word: crenshaw
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...JAMES CRENSHAW...
...CHARLIE CRENSHAW...
...morning. This is the Sands operator. We have been asked to awaken you so you could get up and prepare for the wedding." In the Gold Room of the Sands, everything was ready. Newsreel cameras, TV equipment and flash guns lined the wall. Los Angeles Herald & Express Reporter Jimmy Crenshaw spotted a musician carrying a bull fiddle and made for Pressagent Freeman. "I got it in the paper already, boy," cried Reporter Crenshaw. "no music, no wedding march; there better not be a wedding march." Freeman obliged: "O.K. Rita doesn't want music anyway. No music...
...credit was not all Carter's. He shared it with Broadway's board chairman, canny James Lamb. It was Lamb who had chosen the Crenshaw's location-a 35-acre tract in a suburban area which had no department stores, although there were 567,000 residents within 20 minutes' drive of the site. (The Prudential Life Insurance Co. plans to build 9,000 apartment and duplex units nearby.) That was reason enough to build a shopping area with a new Broadway store as its center...
...figured that the competition would help Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...