Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintenance was diverted to other, more urgent causes. But the cities continued to grow as never before, as millions of unskilled and unschooled migrants from the South and other enfeebled areas poured in. Slums proliferated, crime grew alarmingly, and many middle-class families ran for the hills of suburbia. By 1947, when the municipal authorities began to take positive action, there was widespread talk that the great central cities would become empty holes, surrounded by vast suburban doughnuts...
Things begin with a blithe accounting of the hero's pubescent urbanity in Chicago. Don Wanderhope is his name, and, true to it, he drifts along in a vague metaphysical search until an unbearable succession of catastrophes strands him in suburbia, somewhere between Westport and Decency...
...tone arm can be attached to owner's present turntable; an adapter enables as many as four people to hook in their stethoscopes, hover over the set like surgeons on a joint operation. Price: $9.95 > For the far-gone addict, there is suburbia's newest blandishment: the Stereo House, a gimmick dreamed up by Builder-Promoter Al Horowitz of Jericho, L.I. Equipped with Harmon-Kardon audio components, the 1½-story living room features a splayed ceiling to disperse stereo sound in all directions (no more searching for the ideal chair to listen from), is separate from...
...housebound housewife, trapped in Outer Suburbia without a car and still desperately in need of a bobby pin or a bottle of shampoo, the Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier...
...land of Suburbia, a weary taxpayer sought to quiet his children by spinning them this bedtime tale...