The opening of which store in the 1960s was referred to as a “commercial rape” by an opponent?
ANSWER:
D: Saks Fifth Avenue
Many Chevy Chase residents in the 1960s opposed Saks Fifth Avenue’s plan to open a large store on Wisconsin Avenue in Friendship Heights. “Certainly they take up a large amount of space that would otherwise perhaps be given over to rather honky-tonky places of business,” said Edith Claude Jarvis, a member of Chevy Chase Village Board of Governors in the 1950s and early ’60s.
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Source: Bethesda Magazine
