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		<title>The Permanence of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All large cities feature that staple of stand-up comedy, the retail storefront which seems to change hands every few weeks, and our own is no exception. The left-center unit of the Pioneer Square strip mall, currently S.E. Huang&#8217;s Kenpo-Karaterie, was a Spanish-language tax preparation service catering to the South Street area&#8217;s large Ecuadorian population as recently as last November- and, in the summer of 2006, it was a boutique specializing in salsa-related merchandise. Lot 47 in the Galleria at Woldman Heights is particularly infamous in this regard; in the last three years alone, it has been a Wittman&#8217;s, a Sunglass Hut, a Gap for Seniors, a Dobbins Farm Dairy outlet store, and a shop where one could commission tailor-made potato chip varieties. Perhaps more curious, however, is the diametric opposite of this phenomenon: the retail store that has remained exactly the same, regardless of market forces or consumer trends, defying all known rules of shopping for astonishing periods of time. There is no more stubborn an example in the city than that of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service, which has occupied the same spot at 2704 West 31st Avenue since 1911. Located on the ground floor of what was once a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, You Never Knew It! &#8211; Jan. 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: In 1918, an accident at the Jackson Independent Pharmaceutical Company caused a tank to burst, releasing 1.7 million gallons of the company&#8217;s patented Menth-O-Lux mentholated topical creme (a similar but different-enough-so-as-to-avoid-legal-action competitor to Vicks VapoRub) down Pikers Hill, in the Benson Park neighborhood. The initial six-foot-high wave damaged nearby buildings and killed eleven people and three horses, with the resulting four-foot-deep river of slightly clear muck ensnaring many more as it slowly flowed down hill to the old Lewison Quarry, which had years before become a spring-fed lake. The cleanup took weeks, with virtually the entire city smelling, as the Evening Ledger reported at the time, &#8220;like the sleeping chamber of a weak asth-matic child.&#8221; To this day, people visit the small observation dock at Lewison Quarry during cold and flu season, convinced that the vapors actually do some good. They are more likely to be inhaling oil from automobiles and trolley cars which were discarded in its almost bottomless depths by the city until the mid-1950s. :: With winter weather finally hitting the area this week, the local chapter of PETA has released its schedule of upcoming action events. If you are prone to wearing fur or fur-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Christmastime in the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Friday night saw the lighting of the annual Energonistics (formerly Municipal Gas Works) &#8220;Eternaflame&#8221; menorah, a ten-foot tall structure which consists of a stainless steel set of nine candles, each topped with what will be a constantly burning gas flame as each is lighted over the next week. It joins the &#8220;Eternaflame&#8221; Christmas tree and the &#8220;Eternaflame&#8221; Kwanzaa giant ear of corn in casting an eerie bluish-white light over the plaza of the Energonistics headquarters on East Main Street. :: An article in Sunday&#8217;s Journal-Clarion on the history of local Toys for Tots efforts cleared up something about which I&#8217;ve been wondering for quite awhile. Apparently, one of the largest single donations in the program&#8217;s history came from the Atari Corporation in 1983- 200,000 copies of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game, released the previous year. This explains why a disproportionate number of these typically can be found in area thrift shops. :: A class-action lawsuit was finally settled last week between 12 families and the Cranston Real Estate Investment Trust (CREIT), owners of the Galleria at Woldman Heights, over an incident in 2000. On December 14 of that holiday season, the families were angered and disgusted to find [...]]]></description>
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