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New Maloney on Marketing Post: Emerging Baby Boomer Trends - Maturialism & Spending the Kids Inheritance http://bit.ly/d5FAP
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trendwatching.com’s new briefing: 10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010, from Mass Mingling to Maturialism—http://bit.ly/DG9Af
1:57 PM - 17 Nov 09
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10 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2010
Opportunities aplenty in 2010 for those obsessed with satisfying consumer needs in new ways
Published in January 2010
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We’ve dubbed this MATURIALISM (mature materialism), and, to go full circle, it is closely linked to BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL, to URBANY, to PROFILE MYNING, if not all trends in this Trend Briefing.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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