Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likes to point out that customers return, not just the big-spending families from the cities but also the four locals over at the corner table, all elderly ranchers wearing string ties and straw hats, who have been sipping nickel coffee and talking weather all afternoon. Despite its chintzy tourist baubles, Wall Drug has a homeliness that makes customers spend with a smile. Perhaps a young Connecticut man, heading west with his new bride (but passing up the FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS TO HONEYMOONERS), puts it best: "They don't try to make a lot of money...
Today Naples is a tourist's hell, but travelers in the 18th century, who were tougher and fewer than their modern counterparts, took a different view of it. The city seemed to fulfill the promise of the Grand Tour-to have the ancients as one's tutors, and the lower classes as one's brothel. Naples was poor in mementos of the Renaissance, but it offered something even rarer: no mere glimpse of classical antiquity, but a panoramic view...
...story, can top that. His memories of the city date back to 1943, when his Liberty ship stopped there for a few days to load tanks for Europe. "It was a marvelous, sleazy sailor's town," he says. This time around, Demarest spent four days talking with shoppers, tourists and shopkeepers in and around Harborplace. His conclusion: "Baltimore has gone from being a kind of national joke to a major tourist attraction, a city that can rightfully take pride in itself. The spirit of cooperation is almost unparalleled in America. Baltimore gives hope to all of us who believe...
...Church. On a recent late-morning tour of Harborplace, he was dressed like an avuncular preppie in a blue button-down shirt, a loud madras jacket and Bass Weejun loafers. Ankling around his waterfront pavilions, he is not so much a monarch surveying his turf as a wide-eyed tourist in a wonderland of consumer goodies. In the Light Street Pavilion, he sniffs the potted hydrangeas at the entrance, saunters beamishly past scores of food outlets, surveys Remembering You, a handsomely stocked gift shop, and peeks in on a shop crammed with antique postcards. He exchanges a few joky words...
...their own cities a certain sartorial conservatism has long applied. This summer, though, in the city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in the famous 600-acre Englische Garten. The young strippers quickly became a major tourist attraction, even threatening to rival the rosy Rubens nudes in the city's Alte Pinakothek. But the burghers of Munich were not amused...