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...rent paid by Festoon Records, the proposed tenant, will more than offset the club's additional tax burden, according to one club member who asked not to be named...
...record store, Festoon's, would move from its current location on Massachussetts Ave. near Harvard Square to the Phoenix's Mt. Auburn location...
Chris Walker, an employee at Festoon's saidthat the company hoped to move some time nextmonth, pending approval from the city. The movewould represent a step up for the store, movingfrom its 500 sq. ft. location to the basement ofthe Phoenix which is almost twice that size.Festoon's buys, sells and trades new and usedrecords
Much of the capacity to do that is invisible behind the traditional pillared facade of the New York Stock Exchange. There is still plenty of human hubbub on the trading floor, but less than there used to be in the pre- electronic '60s. Glowing cathode-ray screens now festoon the marble columns of the venerable hall. Overhead, gold-painted tubes conceal telephone and computer cables. Some 450 specialists stand guard at 14 trading posts, a few more than in older days, matching buy and sell orders from stockbrokers...
Millions already have. As a result, the 84,942-sq.-mi. expanse of peaks, pastures and icy lakes that ranges over seven nations from the Gulf of Genoa to Vienna is reeling from the effects of overcrowding. Trails of beer and soft-drink cans festoon the mountainsides. Slashes that are cut into the forest to meet the demand for ski slopes create avalanches in the winter and mud slides in the summer. Salt scattered over ski runs to harden the snow now fouls water supplies, as do the tons of detergents from hotels and condominiums. Animals that need space, such...