<div>Moscow in the 1970s indeed had many "good days." </div>
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<div>The 1978 Sarasota Florida Journal article about Moscow, Idaho in the 1970s is interesting given it emphasizes certain economic issues that remain contentious today; the conflict between the old downtown economic viability and the shopping malls and development on the city edges, and the potential flow of dollars to Washington, which as many know has been a hot button issue with the pending Hawkin's Mall just across the Idaho border in Washington, though now that mall is "on hold" given we are in the "Great Recession" as it is being called.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/20/10, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Pool</b> <<a href="mailto:jpool@moscow.com">jpool@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Thanks for the reminder of why I enjoyed Moscow so much in the 70s when The Spruce was The Spruce, there was a never-ending stream of cars from Wazzu to Moscow every evening and I worked with Jim Wright and a number of other students ‘til the wee hours every Monday and Thursday nights to get the Arg to the printer (which in those days was the <u>Idahonian), </u>and then we’d go to the Country Kitchen at 2 a.m. to have breakfast. Those were good days.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ted Moffett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Sarasota, Florida Journal June 12, 1978: "But this is the best Moscow, " said student Wright. "Why go to Russia?"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The "Spruce" bar mentioned in this newspaper story from Florida, 1978, now "Bookpeople," once in the 1970s featured a topless dancer on a table, as a spontaneous expression of... whatever inspired this person to behave thus...</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>