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From: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Floyd Hydrozoan)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Malls and pamphlets
Message-ID: <550@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:00:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 17:00:51 1986
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In article <2c79d5e5.a51@apollo.uucp> christensen@apollo.uucp (Wendy Christensen) writes:

>... Downtown shopping died because people got tired of contending with 
>bums, drunks, nuts, soapbox >orators, obnoxious adherents of causes, and 
>other assorted "diversions."

Wrong!  Downtown shopping died because of middle class exodus to
suburbia and the convenience (for most) of mall shopping.  Yuppies
have somewhat reversed this trend but not to a tremendous extent. 
Read the business section of a newspaper sometime; lotsa enlightening
info there.