Word: stored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carter of Cincinnati, Ohio. Enrolled in a 1995 business-leadership program aimed at generating ideas to improve that city, she heard of a program housed in a Richmond, Va., warehouse called Crayons to Computers and decided "we could take that warehouse and make it fun." Carter named her free store Crayons to Computers too. "This is not brain surgery," she observes, "just a giant recycling project...
...three or four a year, serving well in excess of 100 communities. Each center benefits from history. Chicago's started as a bulk-delivery warehouse. Then SHOPA retailers toured Crayons to Computers in Cincinnati and liked the mock-retail approach. As a result, Los Angeles opened as a "free store," Chicago was converted to one, and Crayons to Computers got on SHOPA's gift list...
...most quoted and colorful character is strategist Michael Gabbard, who practices bhakti yoga and runs something called Stop Promoting Homosexuality International. He constantly reduces homosexuality to its bedroom component, calling it a "behavior" that society shouldn't "accept." He blames gays for the failure of his health-food store, which they picketed...
...Anything that has anything to do with the Twenties is popular," said Kathleen M. White, the original owner of the 26-year-old store...
...store has already sold out of three dozen berets and has had customers asking for Lewinsky-style dresses...