Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prototype of the Ghermezian consumer center is the West Edmonton Mall, a $750 million garden of retail delights located 350 miles north of the Canada-U.S. border. Far and away the world's largest shopping mall, the sprawling indoor complex is crammed with 836 stores, 110 restaurants, 20 movie theaters and a 360-room hotel. Covering 5.2 million sq. ft., or the equivalent of 108 U.S. football fields, the West Edmonton Mall is twice the size of North America's runner-up shopping mall, the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, Calif. The dimensions loom even more impressively...
Nonetheless, more than 100,000 people a day, as many as 40% of them from the U.S., travel to the Edmonton complex, and with good reason. The Ghermezian mall contains a mammoth amusement park, with entry free of charge. Fully integrated into the retail complex, it comes complete with roller coasters and carrousels (47 rides in all). The mall also boasts an 18-hole miniature golf course and a $5 million hockey rink where Superstar Wayne Gretzky practices with the Edmonton Oilers. The center's Waterpark sports a 600-ft. water slide and a 2.5-acre artificial lake featuring...
...full-blown postmodernism a decade before the movement was officially born. An office building for Kay Jewelers (1963) is a handsome pastiche of Japanese forms and concrete columns with capitals of redwood; a Kay shop (1964) makes use of the voided pediment and pitched drywall ceiling that became shopping-mall cliches 20 years later...
...Maine is far and away better for a couple of hicks like us," he maintains. "And it's better for the kids." King enjoys the role of paterfamilias, scrubbing the indoor grill over the sink so that Tabby and the children can have an outing at the local shopping mall. Dinner is a family affair with everybody present. The conversation ranges from Little League to books and movies to local gossip. King can drive to New York City for meetings with his publishers in one of two Mercedes, or in a red Cadillac convertible or in a Chevy...
...soda in Harvard Square. Local vendors--like Sage's, Store 24 and Christie's Market--do not yet carry the product and give no date when they might stock the lightning-clad cans. The closest vendor which offers the all-nighter helper is Bloomingdale's at the Chestnut Hill Mall...