Word: malling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa...
Since 1946 there had been talk about doing something about Second Street, but nothing came of it. A major obstacle was the possibility that if the mall did not work out, the businesses there could sue the city for sealing off the street to vehicular traffic...
...property owners talked the state legislature into pass ing a bill that gave merchants a chance to file in advance for the damages they thought they might suffer if the street were closed. And while this was going through the legislature, the committee was hard at work selling the mall idea to the Second Street business community. The result was that nobody filed a claim, and early this year the bulldozers went to work...
...pebbled surfaces, studded with trees and dotted with fountains. At its eastern end is a new $4,000,000 department store, and midway on its length a 7½-story office building is under construction. Behind the stores the city had already built large parking spaces, considered by mall men to be a key factor in the success of pedestrians-only areas. In effect, downtown has been converted to an oversized shopping center. Pomona is also considering amplifying its parking facilities by building a monorail between the mall and the fair grounds, two miles away, which are used only...
...looking in the store windows. I can't remember how long it's been since people came downtown on Sunday." Exclaimed a merchant: "Why, I came out of my store at midnight the other night and would you believe it, there were still people walking around the mall...