Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.

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Yesterday we got the height and width, today it's the full wireframe model with scale measurements.

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But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.

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