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Hanover Like Everywhere Else
The installation of Starbucks’ green awnings marks a new step in the nationalization of Main Street. For many years, Hanover’s town fathers had an unwritten policy against chain stores; generations of students bought blazers and chinos at Campion’s (as in the arena), where the Gap (soon to be J. Crew) now stands. Talbots on Lebanon Street was the next national to arrive. And after a Starbucks beachhead was successful inside the Dartmouth Bookstore (once locally owned, too, and now part of a chain — Barnes & Noble?), the Seattle powerhouse is now opening up in the former Dartmouth National Bank building, where I had an account as a freshman in 1975. Will McDonald’s be next?
Addendum: As foot traffic moves ever further down Main Street (to Morano Gelato, for example), the wisdom of having a Post Office sorting station and its attendant parking lot on Hanover’s main thoroughfare seems more than debatable.
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