Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after 2, one muggy afternoon last week, a convoy of cars drove up Pine Street in downtown Albany. "This looks like the Yankee preachers," murmured one bystander...
...incalculable influence on the traditional clubs is the sprouting of high-initiation luncheon clubs. Manhattan has several on top of skyscrapers: the Wall Street Club and the Harbor View downtown, the Cloud Club in the Chrysler Building, the Pinnacle in the Socony Mobil Building, the Hemisphere in the TIME & LIFE Building. These have an advantage over the regular clubs, by operating on a one-meal-a-day, five-day-week basis. The 700-member Pinnacle, for instance, spent $626,000 in fiscal 1961-62 and took in a comfortable...
...content with ordinary restaurants, Holiday Inns is planning to build tenstory inns in downtown locations, each with a revolving restaurant on the roof...
Peachtree Street was never before like this. Handsome stone-and-glass office and apartment buildings are sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters for the Bank of Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate...
...downtown San Diego, a parking-lot operator who last year was regularly netting $800 a month declared last week: "Hell, business is so dead I won't take home more than $130 this month. Friend of mine offered me a deal, and I think I'm going to fold this thing up and go in with him." The friend's deal: an outfit to handle merchandise from San Diego firms that go bankrupt...