As the story goes, Harry and Pat Olivieri were selling hotdogs from a roadside stand in the early 1930s when culinary inspiration struck.

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He also sells corn from his own small patch of land at a roadside stand in front of the family home, a part-time summer job he's done since he was nine that helps pay for college.

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Yet it is home to a roadside stand serving organic fruit and vegetables, a health-food shop packed with nutritious grains and a superstore that University of Washington researchers found attracts flocks of shoppers from well outside the desert.

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The roads all over the island are paved and well-maintained, even though you can stand on the roadside for half an hour and see only five or six cars go by.

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