Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school, the drugstore and practically everything else. The Catholics and Methodists no longer have a church, but the Congregationalists and the Lutherans have hung on. Two years ago the restaurant, the Havana Cafe, went belly-up. For a while there the farmers shifted to the Standard Oil station down by the railroad -- now the Burlington Northern rather than the Great -- for morning coffee, but it got so crowded you couldn't curse a cat without getting a hair in your mouth, and finally somebody had to put their foot down. A town is not a town without a cafe...
...surgery on Agua Caliente Boulevard in Tijuana is stuffed with copies of Good Housekeeping and other U.S. publications. THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING says a notice in English. Nearby, stacked pamphlets, also in English, extol the virtues of resin-bonded ceramic fillings. Soft music from a San Diego radio station fills the room. It could easily be an American dentist's office. Indeed, in some ways that is exactly what it is. Like many other dentists, doctors, opticians and pharmacists in Tijuana, Goldstein relies on Americans, several coming from as far away as San Francisco, for a growing part...
...University of Michigan, a student slipped a pamphlet proclaiming "open-season" on "porch monkees and jigaboos" under the door of a Black students meeting. In addition, a campus disc jockey on a school radio station caused an uproar after he broadcast racist jokes...
CURRENT USE: Former gas station site, pottery studio and public library...
After the paddy wagon pulled into the police station, Rugo was the last to be booked. He says he remembers hearing someone ask him if he were injured. "I thought, at last a civilized person," he says. He turned, and the man clubbed him on the head. Another policeman held off the assailant, as Rugo staggered in the stairwell...