Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O'Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...anyone told Cornelia Jones that she would one day own a house, let alone on Junius Street in Brooklyn's notorious Brownsville district, she would have laughed. The average price for decent housing in adjoining neighborhoods is $80,000, far above what her husband Melvin, a package loader with United Parcel Service, could swing on a salary of just under $30,000. Moreover, Junius Street was a wasteland of vandalized buildings and rubble-strewn vacant lots, not even a place "that I wanted my car to break down in," says Jones, 48. Yet in August 1984 the Joneses and their...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow