Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHOPPING: Upmarket Men's tailors line Savile Row; the most fashionable stores have a branch on nearby Bond Street. More reasonably priced, countryside togs can be found at Hardy Brothers on Pall Mall...
PEOPLE WATCHING: While Hyde Park is the place for sports, Trafalgar Square, down the boulevard known as the Mall from Buckingham Palace and opposite the National Gallery, is where crowds gather annually to ring in the New Year...
...could a mall that became a movie star and is situated at the confluence of two major freeways, in Los Angeles no less, go under? If the answer you want is that malls are done, that people are going back to Main Street because they're tired of the Muzak and have finally realized there's nothing in those bath shops they really need, you won't be happy. Retail analysts say mall business in general is grand and that Internet shopping won't make a significant dent in it for at least five years. But they also...
Among its many problems, the Galleria had no high-end anchor store, like Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus; its two largest tenants, Robinsons and May department stores, merged and got into a messy legal dispute with the mall. Then there was the mall's odd design, which made it difficult to even know how to get into the place. Maybe most important, there were three better malls within 10 miles...
Alika King, 20, always gets Carl's Jr. French fries with ranch dressing and a large Dr Pepper at the Fashion Square mall. That stuff about those "old" movies being filmed at the Galleria doesn't impress her. "They filmed part of Clueless and Buffy the Vampire Slayer here at this mall," King points...