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Fifty years ago, the Big Bazaar moved uptown to become one of the hubs of the megalopolis. When it moved, thirty-two buildings, housing smaller and less independent establishments, had to be knocked down. Everybody said it was the biggest and the best bazaar in the world.
Its twenty-three acres of floor, each a square block, were built for ups and downs as well as for cross-floor movement. The escalators alone could lift and sink 40,000 people every hour. And all day long, folded money and slips of paper were shot through eighteen miles of brass tubing to end in the cartellized brain, the office center of the big bazaar.