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...world and contains six million discerning inhabitants." When Selfridge's threw open its doors in 1909, London newspapers hailed the $2,000,000 building as ushering in "an epoch in London life"; the Times was moved to reassure its readers that the store's huge and wonderful plate-glass windows did not make the structure unsafe. Throngs marveled at Selfridge's 130 departments, its vast restaurants, rest rooms, writing rooms and six acres of selling space. "Visitors, indeed, are guests in a palace," burbled one news story, "with a thousand servants at their disposal...
...series. It lit up the sky brightly at San Diego, 300 miles away. At Los Angeles, 250 miles away, the light was strong enough before dawn to take a dramatic picture (see below). Earth tremors shook Las Vegas (about 70 miles away), where the air blast broke a plate-glass window in Marjer's department store...
...control box, now under construction behind a wooden barricade at the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue, will have a six-foot square concrete base, four wide plate-glass windows, a copper covered roof, and aluminite and stainless steel trimming, including its bright copper spindle, the new box will tower almost 18 feet above the Square...
Opportunist. In Bartow, Fla., after an automobile smashed the door and two plate-glass windows of his laundry, undaunted John W. Edwards posted a notice: "Business as usual. Bartow's only drive-in laundry...
...Truckee River swept hip-deep through the business district of Reno: it smashed floating trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...