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Article: Pompmobiles. (stretch limos) (column)
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- April 1, 1989
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Those of us who were fortunate enough to be present in Washington, DC, on January 20th-the day Messrs. Bush and Quayle were sworn in-will forever recall, I am sure, that those splendid festivities cost close to $30 million, and were worth every penny of it. As we were making our way through the cheering throngs of Yalies that lined Pennsylvania Avenue that day, it became clear where all that money had gone: it had gone to pay for hundreds of gigantic stretch limos that had materialized out of nowhere in the nation's capital; and those stretch limos (and so-called "super stretches") had taken over the streets and avenues of Washington as if this inauguration were some ...