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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 01, 1979

Page

33

Left Handed Stores Lure Tourists In London Oddities

A quirky London tour highlights specialty shops that cater to left handed and unusual interests. The piece surveys venues on Neal Street Harcourt Street Camden Passage Kensington Mall Lambs Conduit Street and more offering kites chess snuff cosmetics gnomes and left handed tools with playful notes on their bizarre appeal.

London Oxford Street Harrod’s Petticoat Lane Neal Street Harcourt Street British Museum Camden Passage Kensington Gnomes Fulham Road Platform One

Innovative promotion boosts Urbana buses

The Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District grew ridership by 450 percent since 1974 through aggressive marketing and fun promotions like Halloween Dracula and Frankenstein on buses. District director Bill Volk credits funds, a 400 percent tax increase, and campus-centered service for the expansion and improved on time reliability.

Santa Claus Thomas Costello Chuck Kramer American Public Transit Association Champaign- Urbana Bill Volk Volk Twin Cities University of Illinois

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