I’m a NYC native. I grew up in the outer boroughs, my family is still there, etc. etc. I’m also 39 and old enough to have lived through a whole bunch of different iterations of NYC.
Anyway, I went to Stuyvesant High School in Tribeca. My friends and I would cut class regularly and go to the World Trade Center concourse because it had a Borders and a Taco Bell. Again, we were teenagers.
The Taco Bell inside the World Trade Center wasn’t a full-size restaurant or food court station. It was this weird “Taco Bell Express” cart with a handful of menu items located right outside the massive escalators that would take you down to the PATH and the subway.
As far as I can tell, the Taco Bell Express cart in the World Trade Center disappeared in the internet’s memory hole and there are no pictures of it or webpages describing it. Maybe it never existed.
And RIP Century 21. Thank you for making me look good at all those job interviews when I was young and broke.
Anyway, retail history blog Labelscar …
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