Why are or were american malls located on the freeway?
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Because customers can see the malls easily and access the malls conveniently.
1096806
There is I- 495's all over the place,  Which one, D.C. Baltimore, California, etc.??
778667
It actually makes sense to me. Australia is a big vacation spot for Americans, but American isn't such a big vacation spot for Australians. A flight to LA would probably have more Americans on it than Australians.\n\nFor example, if you go on vacation to Cancun, then you're going to see a lot more Americans on your return flight than you will Mexicans.
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In San Pedro, California there is a bunch of tunnels that were dug out during world war two.  There is a whole underground world in Long Beach from the 1920,s  an old mall use to be down there near cherry and ocean blvd.  The new Alameda Corridor at the harbor supposedly has tunnels for trucks to drive through.  There is suppose to be tunnels all the way to Mexico.  Colorado has some interesting tunnels, sometimes you can find them on the web, sometimes you can't.  USC has tunnels under it too.  It's a very wierd world we live in.
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Ha.\n\nThe Straight Dope has an excellent explanation, as does Wikipedia's definition of Parkway.\n\nFrom Wikipedia: Historically, the term "parkway" has often implied that the road was designed specifically with a naturalistic or manicured landscaping of the median and adjacent land areas meant to suggest a pastoral driving experience, isolated from the manifestations of commerce and advertising, even when the road passes through populated areas; for this reason commercial traffic is excluded. Many parkways have signature road signs with special emblems that suggest a thematic driving experience and increase the sense of isolation from civilization in the vicinity of the road.
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mall, parks, outdoor malls, restaurants, market places, movies, fair, and concerts!!
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well dude the main one is in sandiego california it aint butt 10 miles away from where i live. It should be on brodman road
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It would probably be more symbolic than anything.  The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States, and terrorists are into symbolism and such.  That's why they attacked the WTC - it was the symbol of America's economic might.  The Pentagon was attacked because it's the symbol of America's military might.
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Because the street was up on a hill so was high. Broadway was so called because the was was broad enough for fours carts at first then cars. Wall Street is called that because when they first started building NY they built a wall around it to protect it from Indians. \nPS, this is not a dumb question.
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Usually roads are owned/maintained by either local, state, or federal government. \n\nBUT, that doesn't mean that Richie does not own the property along the street on which all the stores are located. Many store owners lease the land their stores are built on.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodeo_Drive
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1.Climate of an area\n2.Resources to be found and worked with\n3.Industry revolving around those resources\n4.Areas between countries that are high traffic areas\n5.Cities that happen to be stopover points between major governmental, economical, and financial trade centers. ie; Shreveport, LA is between Dallas, TX and Birmingham,AL and if I-20 didn't exist it barely would either.
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They are the stores that "anchor" malls and have many different departments (hence the name.)  Macy's and JC Penney are a couple of examples.\n\nSome are expensive, some aren't.  The rent for a spot in the mall contributes to the prices of the goods a store sells.  And competitors who are advertising that department stores are SO expensive are doing it to serve their own needs, namely getting you to shop with them instead.  You have to take anything you hear in a commericial with a grain of salt and do your own comparison shopping.
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It's my opinion that if I-40 (Old Route 66) wasn't going straight through the middle of it, it wouldn't be there. ;)  It's 2 hours from practically anything in any direction (2 hrs to the TX border North, East and West of it and 2 hrs to Lubbock -- home of Texas Tech University -- just South).  It has a "standing" wind of about 15 mph and the biggest hill you'll find there is going up your driveway. ;)\n\nWith that said, the people there are very nice and it has one of the best bowling lanes I've ever been in (Western Bowl).  There's the American Quarter Horse Museum right along I-40 and then there's the Texan (where you can order a 72 oz. steak!).  Right "next door" is Canyon, TX (so close, it's considered part of Amarillo's "metropolitan" population), where you can go see the musical "Texas!" in an open-air amphitheater with the Palo Duro Canyon (the 2nd largest canyon in the US -- next to the Grand Canyon, of course) as its backdrop.\n\nI would definitely classify it as a "small city-town", whereas I'm very much a "big city" person.  However, for the time I lived there, it wasn't "bad"; big name concerts made their way through (even if it was on their way to bigger stops) enough to make you feel like you weren't "completely" out in the middle of nowhere.  Driving, you're 2 hrs from Lubbock, TX (S), about 4 hrs to Albuquerque, NM (W) and Oklahoma City, OK (N-NE) and a little over 5 hrs to Dallas/Ft Worth, TX (E-SE).  So, if you want the "big[ger] city" life, it's not too bad if you make a weekend out of it.\n\n-e
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There is one north of town off I-5 at Exit 199 called TravelCenters Truck-N-Travel 78. \nDon't have an address for it, just lisitng I-5 off Exit 199, right next door to Coburg.\n\nEnjoy!!
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There are plenty of places here you can live an open life and be safe...Washington DC, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, San Diego...in fact, most large US cities are very open and broad minded. Why Canada? Just curious.
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Drive Interstate Highway 5 from just south of Gilroy California to L.A. and you'll be right on the fault line. The fault also extends into the Pacific where it meets the bottom of the ocean north of San Fransisco. All of these places are of course in California.
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good question.  \n\nKind of like why do we park in the drive way but drive on the parkway?