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	<title>The City Desk &#187; South Street</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Galleria at Wold. Hgts.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Pierce]]></category>
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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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