Word: sidestreets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time though it is, JGE sticks stubbornly to small-time style. Its "showroom" is a small, carton-crammed section of a warehouse in a sidestreet in Bayside, Queens. All sales are for cash. Except for the Rosenbergs, who sometimes help unload trucks, only part-time employees mind the store. They include moonlighting policemen, housewives and four or five high school basketball players from the Friends' Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Clerks make no effort to push a particular brand or persuade customers to buy a higher-priced item; they simply take orders. Yet JGE turns over $300,000 worth...
...small sidestreet-Scotia Street near the Cheri theatres-policemen broke ranks and ran after demonstrators who had either lagged behind or fallen down. They struck about seven people with clubs, shoving one up against a brick wall and back to the street, hitting him repeatedly on the neck and back...