Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people spoke of eclipsing Roger Maris and the corporate types spoke of rebuilding downtown areas with shiny new old-time baseball arenas. No more cookie-cutters! More ballparks with character; with nooks and crannies and doodads and gobblygooks and plush seats and waiter service for RJR Nabisco's senior executive vice president in charge of bureaucracy...
Some thought Boston lost its claim to television fame when the long-running series "Cheers," filmed at the downtown Bull and Finch Pub, aired its last episode...
Alas, I found no such variety. What I found instead was an increasingly homogenous and media-saturated country, one utterly devoid of places with real individuality. We drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
...downtown areas of all these towns and cities were once bustling centers of local commerce, replete with local stores and an individual character. Now those centers are modern-day ghost towns, with all the consumers having fled to the gold rush of national chain stores on the outskirts of town...
During his tenure as mayor, Flynn was supposed to attend a tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Boston that would be witnessed by thousands of people...