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...DOWNTOWN DAYTON MAY NOT BE quite dead yet, but by dusk Ohio's sixth largest city is pretty much out cold for the night. With office vacancies at 22%, the evening rush hour is largely a function of urgency rather than congestion: nobody wants to be caught downtown after dark. By 6 Elder-Beerman, the last big department store since Lazarus closed its doors in January, is nearly empty. Outside a few remaining stragglers hurry to catch buses for the outlying suburbs and strip malls, leaving behind an uneasy mix of panhandlers, police and security guards. The only other substantial...
Pass out a few torches, and the crowd just might march on the nearest castle. "I've never seen things so bad in Dayton," says Garry Smith, 43, an unemployed autoworker and former Bush supporter. "Clinton makes me nervous, but I feel desperate, and I'm about willing to try anything." Gail Seman, 51, a temporary office worker and registered Republican for 26 years, was first shaken by Anita Hill's treatment during the Clarence Thomas hearings. Then she watched the Republican Convention on TV last month. "They showed someone from the Kansas delegation wearing a T shirt that...
Though unemployment stands at 6.8%, almost a full point below the national average, voters have grappled with an eroding industrial base since the 1970s, when NCR Corp. -- the town's main employer for nearly a century -- shed 14,000 workers. Subsequently, Dayton Tire and Rubber Co., Frigidaire and Dayton Press all pulled out or closed down. "Dayton just got knocked on its butt," says Steve Sidlo, managing editor of the Dayton Daily News (circ. 182,000). "We were losing 2,000 jobs here, 4,000 there and 5,000 there. It was just bang, bang, bang, one body blow after...
...beating hasn't stopped. Last December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
...race is on and will heat up as the holiday buying season approaches. The early advantage seems to go to Escape. "It's a killer," says Allen Burke of Dayton Hudson stores. "A runaway hit." But the three giants are most concerned with long-term sales and permanent market niches. That takes a big budget and intelligent strategy, which is more than what's behind many minor scents, including most celebrity and designer fragrances...