Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...
...city's Westbury Mall was reduced to a heap of wreckage up to 14 ft. deep. The adjacent Waterford Square apartment complex was flattened. Most of the fatalities occurred at those two sites, as shoppers and residents had no time to flee the storm's assault. Terri-Lynn Frasher, 16, had been taking a shower in her apartment; she was pinned under a sink and vanity when her walls collapsed. Gashed by a broken mirror, she was pulled naked from the building. "I can't even say I lost everything but the clothes on my back," she said wryly from...
...idea that Taubman debased a saintly enterprise with the values of the shopping mall is not true. All he did was shove an already competitive business into the ruthless habitat of the '80s. It is not true either, as anyone knows who has followed the fortunes of the two houses, that Sotheby's is all hustle and Christie's all starch. In fact, it was Christie's that got into trouble with the law over falsifying an auction. In 1985 David Bathurst admitted that four years earlier, when he was president of Christie's New York branch, he had reported...
...controversy is the outmoded notion that department stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to unveil Santa's workshop. Now, of course, four-year-olds are still gorging on Halloween candy when the Saturday-morning ads begin their incessant shilling for Christmas toys. In a nation where the mall never palls and seven-days-a-week shopping seems enshrined as a civic religion, Thanksgiving stands out as an oasis of tranquillity and a reminder of the values that once tempered America's materialism. This Thursday give thanks for the one holiday that cannot be bought...
...want our neighborhood to become a shopping mall," she added...