Mispronouncing acronyms

[Adrian Graham]

On 3 August 2010 21:20, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:


> > The cop car terminals looked pretty slick for 1980. Almost like mobile
> PLATO
> > terminals with their orange plasma display. Maybe it was an actual
> > Motorola product? Of course Motorola and PLATO were also suburban
> > Chicago/Illinois tie-ins :-). And the mall that gets destroyed, I have
> > been told, was (previous to being a mall) one of the Teletype factories
> > in Skokie.
>
> Actually, it was a defunct, bankrupt shopping mall in a southwest suburb,
> standing in for a non-existent shopping mall in the northwest suburb of
> Park Ridge.[1]
>
>
Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois:
*http://tinyurl.com/34dhq65 (google maps)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Square_Mall
*
:)

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