Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here in Cambridge and Boston, conscientious consumers should remember to patronize the stores (The Coop, J. August, Almy's) that voluntarily joined the boycott. They should try to avoid those large downtown and suburban department stores (Filene's, Jordan Marsh, Milton's) that callously refused to support the Chicano laborers and had Amalgamated picketers arrested and harrassed when they publicized the struggle to weekend shoppers...
...Downtown, traffic was incredibly misdirected and always stalled, while short wiry policemen with sunglasses and tremendous black women stood on streetcorners as if for some common purpose. Not too far away were what had been the grandest of the old houses in town, three or four large places with New Orleans iron balconies and fan lights over the door, where a judge or banker could have lived. The columns had warped with rot and cracked open. In one of these houses lived a crazy old lady of the Capote/Faulkner stamp, her house full of wilted memories and flowers, whose special...
Ford will receive the Harvard Republican Club's "Man of the Year" award at the Harvard Club in downtown Boston instead of coming to Cambridge...
...city shone in the expansive electric light that almost explodes in the rarefied night air, I left my hotel and the flickering outdoor food kiosks of the Indian Quarter to eat dinner with some Westerners I'd met in a cafe earlier that day. The main streets of the downtown area were quiet now, in contrast to the bustle of the tourists, businessmen, cocaine-pushers (La Paz is the cocaine capital of the world). I walked past the neon signs of the restaurants and clubs that dotted the fashionable blocks of the Prado, La Paz's most fashionable street...
...long cold winter looks like it will never come. A young black man emptied two pistols through the window of a house on Grand River killing both his mother and his sister. A man in a Santa Claus outfit was robbed and beaten in the alley behind downtown Hudson's by a gang of four teenage boys. A fifty-year-old man crashed his car into the walls of the Windsor Tunnel, killing three people but not himself. And farther north on Novak Street, Kimberly Rath washed her hair and left on her long last walk...