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...years ago, hundreds wept as the cheap, folksy Rockbottom bar shut its doors. Around the same time, the departure of Pacific Sunwear left yet another opening for something new and fresh; what we got instead was an utterly useless and offensively ostentatious Omega watch store. Gentrification has overrun countless college bars and eateries, forcing them increasingly out of our reach. The Grolier Poetry Book Shop—the oldest of its kind in the United States—was recently slated to close, though it seems to have retreated from the brink...
THEN IT CAME TO ME that Harvard itself had built a house for even less, as recently as 1983. So I called the firm that had brought in Harvard Yard's gingerbread guardhouse for a mere $25,000--J.W. Rockbottom & Sons. I got old J.W. himself...
...turned out that the Johnston gate guardhouse was five feet square, which worked out to a construction cost of $1,000 per square foot. So for $37,000, Rockbottom said, he could put up a building six feet square and have $1,000 left over to buy a toilet seat from the Air Force...
...Particularly if the kid was raised on food stamps, huh?" Rockbottom said...
...automakers are jostling one another like the last four cars in a demolition derby. The bumping and grinding began Aug. 15, when General Motors offered customers the rockbottom financing rate of 7.7%. The dramatic GM ploy surprised Ford, Chrysler and American Motors, which last week slashed their financing rates. Ford matched GM's 7.7%, and Chrysler and AMC went even lower, to 7.5%. Compared with conventional car loans, which carry rates as high as 13%, the automakers' deals strike customers as a steal. At Village Ford in Dearborn, Mich., showroom traffic increased 50% last week. "When they come...