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...Sierra Vista, Ariz...
While the Spirit Lasts. Today, Second Street is a curbless vista of black concrete and pebbled surfaces, studded with trees and dotted with fountains. At its eastern end is a new $4,000,000 department store, and midway on its length a 7½-story office building is under construction. Behind the stores the city had already built large parking spaces, considered by mall men to be a key factor in the success of pedestrians-only areas. In effect, downtown has been converted to an oversized shopping center. Pomona is also considering amplifying its parking facilities by building a monorail...
Pedestrian malls should contain "elements of surprise," says Wolfe. "Not only should the streets jog, meander or curve, but the architectural features must change and probably not be absolutely repetitive and consistent." This produces a "system of arrested views." Wolfe feels that no vista should be longer than 600 ft. to 700 ft., as in what he calls "one of the most exciting walkways in the world": the route from the Piazza San Marco to the Rialto in Venice...
...Voyage (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is one of those travel pictures made "with the generous cooperation of" assorted hotels, railroads and steamship lines that seem to gain in glamour upon being transferred to film. This time Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman, an ever-lovin' couple from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon...
Moon Pilot (Buena Vista). Sacred cows, if skillfully milked, produce tuns of fun; but Hollywood usually avoids them because they often kick back. The more reason to be pleasantly surprised that Walt Disney, not specifically known for socio-political daring, should have herded three of these pampered critters-the FBI, the Air Force and the astronaut program -into the same plot. Under the deft manipulation of Director James Neilson and Scenarist Maurice Tombragel, they produce a fairly steady stream of healthy nonsense...