Concert posters flapping on the windows of storefront strip malls boast not of "Beck Live!" but of an appearance by Buddy Greco performing in the Bogart Room of the Racquet Club.
They may not notice a treasure trove of fossils nearby in facades and lobbies of buildings, storefronts in malls, in rest room partitions, and even tabletops in furniture stores.
Money Hut, a payday loan shop, along with dozens of other local businesses, placed copies of the recall petitions in the store Monday morning, advertising the "Recall Bob" effort by hanging a hastily made sign in front of the strip mall storefront.
Victoria's Secret, which sells women's lingerie and sleepwear through hundreds of stores and millions of catalogs, would seem to have little to fear from Victor's Little Secret, a gift and novelty shop selling sex toys and "Everything for Romantic Encounters" from a strip mall storefront in Elizabethtown, Ky.
"I have not heard the song," said Mr. Brown, sitting in the office of his Savage Brown Yachts company, across the street from the new Seabreeze, now Nick's Seabreeze, which has been relocated to a strip mall storefront where breezes from the sea seldom if ever stir.
It is a small counter built into the Chinatown mall storefront where the chicken pho dive Hoan Kiem used to be, right down from Chego, and even in its earliest weeks a line curled out its door.
The company recently opened two mall storefronts where Dell products are displayed.
Most entrees at the strip-mall storefront cost $5.50 and are ordered at the counter.
The small group that gathered at lunchtime inside a strip-mall storefront in Skokie had not come to eat.
Paco Underhill, the retailing expert, tells me that 20percentt of the mall storefronts could soon be empty.
IN 2003, an Albuquerque tax lawyer, Matthew Urrea, started Walk in Wills, a strip-mall storefront next to a Target store.
