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Fund President G. Pebble Gifford predicted the project would be an "eyesore" and worried that the building was more likely to house large chain shops than the mom-and-pop stores that gave the Square its traditional character...
...Gifford, however, says she doesn't see it that way. She says it was important for the fund to fight the project because city officials wouldn't ask tough questions about its impact. The financial difficulties of the developer had to do with the declining real estate market in 1991, not the legal costs, she says...
...preserve whatever it is that is special or unique about Harvard Square," said Defense Fund President Pebble Gifford, who introduced the discussion...
That's fine by pebble Gifford, the Fund's most outspoken member. As quoted in the Cambridge Chronicle, Gifford claims national chains will displace already existing mom-and-pop stores. "What's to keep people coming to Harvard Square if they can get anything they want here in any mall in America?" she asks...
...into Estillfork. Roy Taylor and his wife Emogene drove 40 miles from Tennessee to catch a glimpse of Potts' cabin. "We've been seeing this on TV so much . . . so we thought we'd come out here," explains Emogene. "I guess this'll make history," says local resident Jeanette Gifford, as the cars cruise by. "There'll probably be a movie about...