Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earthly comforts, the industry is concentrating on centrally located, massproduced air conditioning: last month the Hartford Gas Co. inaugurated the U.S.'s first utility-operated air-condition ing plant, which will offer metered air conditioning to any building in the entire downtown area. In Washington a builder has installed a central system for 134 new town houses, piping chilled and hot water into each and dispensing with the need for furnaces, hot-water heaters and chimneys...
...them pallid and paunchy, drove up to a construction site in Salt Lake City, and began mixing and pouring concrete for a building floor. Two hours later, tired but happy, they hopped back into their Buicks and Chryslers, drove home for a shave, shower and breakfast. Then they headed downtown to their regular jobs as lawyers, bankers, doctors and businessmen...
Part of Korvette's mounting success consisted in riding a trend. In the early '503, Gene Ferkauf was only one of many brash young discounters onto a good new thing. A retailing upheaval was under way. The nationwide move to the suburbs was undercutting the downtown department stores. Not having their money tied up in huge and costly property, the discounters moved out to where the housewives and buyers were, catered to the car-borne family trade by providing huge parking lots, kept night hours, and sold on Sundays. The typical discount center became part supermarket, part department...
...trip to Tanglewood or Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember the subways and buses stop...
...high-ceilinged living room of a downtown Lima mansion...