Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Housing. Nearing completion in Chicago is a double-barreled monument to circularity. Marina City, poking its twin towers 65 stories above the Chicago River north of the Loop, is the tallest apartment house ever built...
...says New York's Mayor Wagner. "Many people are moving back to town." To attract them, Chicago is planning the construction of 50,000 new dwelling units in the heart of the city by 1980, has already cast at least one spectacular lure: the 65-story, twin-towered Marina City, with pie-wedge apartments and balconies with a fine view of the lake. Los Angeles has reversed its historic trend to single homes, is now building more apartments than houses...
...most ambitious project under construction is the $36 million Marina City, which is rising into the sky alongside the Chicago River. Built around two eyecatching, 65-story cylinders, the multipurpose development will have 896 medium-rent apartments, plus a 16-story office building, a 1,700-seat theater, a 1,000-car garage, boat dock, swimming pool, ice rink and even a sculpture garden...
...Marina City was the idea of William L. McFetridge, president of the 300,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Union, who hoped to stem the population exodus to the suburbs, give union members more work within the heart of Chicago. So promising is Marina City that a group of New York banks willingly granted it a 97% mortgage...
...other Texas boatmen are never threatened by such violence. So enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated...