If you haven't heard of the Long Island town of Brentwood, take a moment to pity the place.
In 1951, when Rudy was seven, Harold moved the family to the Long Island town of Garden City South, settling in a neighborhood of neat new houses, near a new Catholic grade school that had been built to accommodate the city exodus.
It was, and remains, on Coyote Hill Road, in Palo Alto, nestled in the foothills on the edge of town, in a long, low concrete building, with enormous terraces looking out over the jewels of Silicon Valley.
Located between the coastal cities of Ranchos Palos Verdes and Long Beach, the town is , among other things, the birthplace of influential 1980s punk rockers the Minutemen, one of America's most important working ports, and a demographically diverse blue-collar mix of Latino, Croatian and Italian immigrants.
The power and militancy of Local 1877, a novelty in a town long inhospitable to unions, are the result of immigration.
"I used to roller-skate in these cellars, " she told me as we explored the maze of medieval tunnels beneath the town of Beaune in which the company has long stored its wines.
Since childhood, my family has vacationed at Montauk, a rather sleepy beach town at the easternmost point of Long Island, N.
The Nantucket is actually one of the oldest on the island, a grand hotel in the heart of town first opened in 1891 but long shuttered.
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The basketball team has long played in the shadow of cross-town rival UCLA, which hired Steve Alford from New Mexico on Saturday.
Visitors pass through miles of wheat fields before arriving in town, and agriculture has long been the mainstay of the economy.
Mrs Nelson worked, lived and died in the small town of Lurgan, five miles from Portadown, where communal hatreds have festered because of the long-running dispute over the march by the Protestant Orange order through the Catholic Garvaghy Road.
The town has had a long tradition of manipulating the rules to benefit insiders, most notably Roski.
The club's class of 1990, who lifted the FA Trophy with a 3-0 defeat of Leek Town under the old twin towers, have long been heralded as the greatest in the club's history, with names such as Kenny Lowe, Neil Doherty and cult hero Colin Cowperthwaite ingrained in Bluebirds folklore.
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Which is why it is probably appropriate that Stream is held each year in Marathon - the little town outside Athens that knows all about the unchanging and challenging nature of the long distance race.
The clash between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in a town hall-style meeting in Long Island could decide the outcome of the election.
"Clearly the costs to the local taxpayer of this long-running and tortuous legal wrangling over the Ashton Vale Town and Village Green application are unacceptable, " Mr Sim added.
He campaigned hard for the cabbies of his home town who, after a long court battle, were forced to change their saloon cars back to traditional London black cabs at great cost.
The finished craft -- which has just been opened to the public on the Merwede River in the Dutch town of Dordrecht -- is 300 cubits long (about 450 feet or 137 meters), 50 cubits wide (about 70 feet or 21 meters), and 30 cubits high (about 45 feet or 14 meters).
The defense called 15 witnesses, including several relatives of the defendant who placed him across town at about the time that police long believed that the murder was committed.
Much of the town is already eroded away and has long been gone into the sea.
While Epinal's players bask in the limelight of its victory, it's unlikely that the town will rival Paris for romance in the long term.
The case has attracted a Wikileaks-style group, called Local Leaks, which has compiled a long dossier accusing authorities in the town of not pursuing the case aggressively because they wish to shield members of the football team from punishment.
On its website, St Asaph City Times, St Asaph Town Council said its bid aimed to ensure the town landed the "quiet, dignified recognition of what has long been seen as its right".
But the first suicide attacks in Mali's history in Gao at the end of last week, followed by fierce fighting in the northern town have led to fears it may be a long battle to bring security to the vast desert region.
Launched from the small town of Dumbarton on the banks of the River Clyde in western Scotland in 1869, the Cutty Sark has a long and colorful history.
The 276 inhabitants of the volcanic island still face a long wait for letters and parcels - mail comes via Cape Town and must be put on board a fishing vessel for the 2, 800-kilometre journey to the island.
In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods.
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The site, atop a 1, 500-foot ridge in the neighboring town of Jackson, 35 miles northeast of Albany, had long been known to locals as Indian Ovens.
Last week part of a long-awaited bypass to the Gwynedd town was opened temporarily to help another bicentenary celebration event in the nearby town of Tremadog, which Madocks also built.
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