LESS CITY: The City Shopping Center in...
LESS CITY: The City Shopping Center in Orange has been losing “store after store,” says General Manager Jack Boyster, since May Co. moved out two years ago. Soon they might all be gone. . . . Boyster says redevelopment plans “may” force The City to shut down all its stores by the end of this year. It would reopen, with a mix of new and old tenants, at the end of 1995. “When we’re finished, we expect a bigger and better mall--you won’t even recognize the place,” he says. . . . You might not recognize the name either. Boyster says no name has been chosen yet.
LIQUIDATION GAME: The latest casualty at The City is Clubhouse Pizza. Next to go: Oshman’s Sporting Goods, which will shut down in two weeks after a major close-out sale. Several stores at The City are offering liquidation sales. But they aren’t going out of business. . . . “We need these sales to compete with the other stores that are going out of business,” says an employee at one women’s store there.
SAD MEN: Good Housekeeping magazine this month lists the 327 best mental health experts in the country, and among them is Dr. Ellen McGrath, a Laguna Beach clinical psychologist. McGrath says it’s men--not women--whose numbers are up in counseling. And mostly men over 45. . . . “As women’s roles are changing, men are seeing their sex roles change,” she says. “Some of these men are turning into couch potatoes without realizing why.”
THEY SHRUNK EO? The short 3-D film at Disneyland, “Captain Eo,” starring Michael Jackson, has been such a popular attraction since it opened seven years ago that the Disney folks are coming up with another 3-D movie short. . . . This time it’s “Honey, I Shrunk the Theater,” based on the movie series of a similar name. Disneyland spokesman John McClintock says the new film, due by early 1995, may replace “Eo.” But if it does, he insists, it has nothing to do with Michael Jackson’s legal troubles.
