Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reported one black detective to TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "We recently saw a guy from Mulberry Street [in Manhattan's Little Italy] meeting with Nicky Barnes at a place in The Bronx [on Barnes' turf]. A few years back, Nicky would have had to go downtown to see the Italian." Barnes' 44th birthday party in October 1976 was a tour de force of extravagant self-confidence. As police stakeouts looked on in amazement from across the street, more than 200 members of black organized crime rolled up in their Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces to a catered affair...
They do not have to wander far for inspiration. From their old wooden porch, the couple can see Lake Washington through the trees; their garden borders on the large Leschi Park, which is only a five-minute drive from downtown. Often the Wrangles go hiking in the nearby Cascades, and Dick roams the lake shore watching daily the mallards and fishermen...
...Blight. Seattle has rebuilt half of its city center since 1970 and renovated two previously downtrodden downtown districts, turning them into fashionable areas for restaurants, boutiques and offices...
...1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown areas...
...another of Ellis' grand plans, known as Forward Thrust. Voters in 1968 approved $334 million in bonds to finance 615 civic improvement projects in Ellis' package. Freeway Park, for instance, a five-acre area of greenery and waterfalls, was built on a great lid placed over a downtown thoroughfare. The program, which scattered parks and swimming pools all over town, also financed the $59.8 million stadium that Kingdome, a covered stadium that literally made Seattle a big-league city. It is the home of the Seahawks (football), the Sounders (soccer) and the Mariners (base ball). Already 3.7 million...