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Gambling foes charge that the casinos have not only attracted unsavory elements to the reservation but also failed to produce economic benefits. "We still have no supermarket, no Laundromat, no arena," says Chief Howard Tarbell, head of the St. Regis Tribal Council. "We need legitimate economic alternatives so people don't look only to the casinos for hope." Besides trying to monopolize the profits from casinos, critics claim, the Warriors are seeking to protect cross-border trading operations worth $100 million annually. U.S. and Canadian officials are searching for a formula that would restore peace to the reservation...
...built itself a Potemkin village, complete with a bank, drugstore, barbershop, pool hall, Greyhound bus station, coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...
...find crimson scarves or Veritas running shorts at 1 Bow St.--home of Baskin-Robbins, the Bow and Arrow Pub, an auto school, a recently folded copy shop and a liquidated laundromat...
However, nobody seems likely to build in the near future. Barry Bornstein, owner of the Bow and Arrow, and the manager at Baskin-Robbins both say the copy store and laundromat left for financial reasons that had nothing to do with Coop plans for expansion. And they add that their own leases are for an indefinite period. Says the Baskin-Robbins manager, "We're going to be here for a good while...
Anna meets Leo in a Harvard Square laundromat. (Not least appealing in the film is its local color--several scenes were filmed on location in Harvard Square and Boston where the story takes place. Look for people you know...