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| Ottawa Journal, March 30 1972 |
For me back in '72, "reading the papers" meant checking the funnies and the horoscope, so I missed this one the first time around. An eleven block mall on Bank Street? My first reaction here is to wonder who those NCC guys were scoring their microdot from. I'll bet it was that guy with the french-cut who used to work Confederation Square.*
On closer reading, I realize that this "mall" thing was a proposal to narrow Bank from four lanes to two and emphasise public transit. Aren't we kind of halfway there already?
*You know the guy — skinny, poor-boy tees, flares, ratty little moustache. You'd walk by him and he be like "haaassshhhhh", so quitely that you weren't even sure you'd heard him.
