Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City has spared us a couple of good people. For instance, Gil Scott-Heron performs tonight at Paul's Mall, 733 Boylston St., in Boston, from...
...closed, and in fact has huge traffic jams to prove it. So far this year, more than 1.5 million people have seen the No. 1 Bicentennial attraction, the Liberty Bell, which has been moved from its traditional place inside Independence Hall to a site opposite on Independence Mall. A surprising number of tourists are astonished to learn that the bell does not ring, but they get to touch it, exclaim over its famous crack and listen to a lecture that tells its history...
...most exciting flowering of Washington is at its Bicentennial best on the Mall, the vast greensward that sweeps from the new reflecting pool at the foot of Capitol Hill to the landmark pool stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Nowhere in the world is there an equal to the burgeoning cluster of the Smithsonian Institution's showcases that now flank the Mall. In late 1974 the Hirshhorn Museum of Sculpture opened to great fanfare; on July 1 the huge new National Air and Space Museum will open, encompassing the history and artifacts of flight within...
...Lincoln end of the Mall, past and present come alive in the American folk-life festival, a recent tradition expanded this year to run throughou-the summer. More than 5,000 musicians and craftsmen from all parts of the nation and 36 other countries will fill the place with the music, dance, food and arts that enrich the American mosaic. Directly across the reflecting pool (watch out for canoe races) is another new feature: the sprawling Constitution Gardens−a graceful lake, paths and more than 2,600 trees−replacing the ugly "temporary" buildings that have blighted Constitution Avenue...
Elsewhere in the capital, similar ramps and facilities are being opened at the Jefferson Memorial and curbs are being cut and ramped along the mall, site of many of next month's Bicentennial festivities. A 131-page booklet called "Access Washington" is available to all paraplegic visitors; it lists all of the hotels, Government buildings, stores and other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors...