Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astors and Vanderbilts traded at Wanamaker's, and the carriage trade adopted the store. It became the center of New York's fashionable shopping area. But as years passed, the New York shopping area gradually moved farther uptown, and most department stores moved with it. Fusty old Wanamaker's stayed on though there were sometimes more clerks than customers in the store...
Black Widow (20th Century-Fox), based on a whodunit by Patrick Quentin, is really just a routine man hunt through Manhattan. However, Scripter-Director-Producer Nunnally Johnson takes the opportunity to give the customers some uptown lowdown, and he dishes it out with chill skill...
This year, four campuses further uptown, Columbia is celebrating the 200th year since President Johnson first began classes in Trinity Church's vestry room. Two weeks from today on October 31, the day Kind George 11 signed the charter, the last of three great convocations will be held on Morning side Heights. It will climax one of the most extensive--and praiseworthy-- birthday celebrations ever undertaken by an American university...
...Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University a yearly rent of three and a half million dollars. By the time this rent was coming in the University had had to move again to the uptown bluffs now known as Morningside Heights...
...Look. The customers who followed Ohrbach's uptown found a big change from the cluttered aisles and creaky flooring of the old store. The new Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...