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Beneath the Skyway

99% Invisible

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The Sky Ways and Downtown Retail

In the early nineties, fewer people began using the skyways to do week end shopping or enjoy night time entertainment. So james watched as most of the evening oriental attractions that he and his friends had loved began to disappear. The minikof place closed. The pool hall that used to play cord music, that plase closed. Then the movie theatre. Shuddered. I think for me, that was just one thaoss lie maniacloseng the theatre. Oh, and remember the indoor park, the one with the waterfall? I also went there. It's now abandoned, and the glass ceiling is leaking, and there's a sign that says, no tress passing

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