It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
The original Helston branch line, which connected the town to main line services to London, was closed in 1964 as part of cuts recommended by Dr Richard Beeching, the chairman of the British Railways Board.
In Santa Cruz, the valley's main town, the white adobe church on the main square will have to be demolished.
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"I have never witnessed them so relaxed in the main town, " said one local travel agent.
Puerto Asis, the main town in the area, is surviving thanks only to government airlifts.
Oudtshoorn farmers built grand homes along the town's main thoroughfare, and the number of ostrich farms ballooned.
The French-led forces recaptured the other main town in northern Mali, Timbuktu and Gao, without a fight.
The town's main hospital is closed, as medical workers have fled and medicines were looted by the rebels.
His pick-up truck had apparently developed a fault in Angoor Adda, near South Waziristan's main town of Wana.
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The mayhem takes place on the town's main square and Calle del Cid.
The main town on Nias, Gunung Sitoli, seems to have been largely destroyed.
Over a glass of melon juice in the town's main street he talks of his worries about the conflict.
In Truckee, the small main town of the resort, the Safeway supermarket has resorted to advertising on television to attract staff.
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The Elwy still rages angrily under the town's main bridge, engulfing fields, a car park and adjacent roads in its path.
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In 1982 so much cash flowed through the town that the main drag -- Wall Street -- seemed like the real thing.
That created a 180-mile round trip to buy wardrobe basics, but it also left a big hole in the town's main drag.
The main town of Vathy is lively but not touristy and has a sharp, contemporary hotel Perantzada with harbor views.
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You hunt down the requisite ghosts and demons, investigate the aristocratic politicking of the main town and spelunk down into any number of scary holes.
Ski areas' beloved dive bars are now competing with award-winning craft breweries, while ambitious farm-to-table restaurants are opening in town, near Main Street's burger joints.
Keane, is located just off the main town square in Listowel.
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In 1995 the Tigers lost the city of Jaffna, the main town of the peninsula, to the Sri Lankan army after talks with Mrs Kumaratunga broke down.
Zari, who finished high school and does not have any children, said she filed the paperwork necessary to run for office on Sunday in Khar, the main town in Bajur.
Mr. Nunley said the man's 1997 Cadillac was one of the last vehicles in the parade and the driver might have suffered an unspecified medical problem when his car accelerated to about 25 miles an hour and struck the crowd on a two-lane bridge along the town's main road.
Sitting in Woody's Family Restaurant on the town's main drag, roof truss salesman Kevin Moore explains that he worried the proposed windmills could hurt property values, stunt the town's growth and flick dangerous ice balls. (Navitas says it's not a problem.) He went to county board meetings with 200 angry citizens, who helped stall Navitas for a year.
Meanwhile people in the town have told the BBC of food shortages because the main market in the town has been closed for the last five days.
Town Lane, the main road in Croston village, the scene of floodings this summer, is currently closed.
The 10km gap between Johannesburg and its main dormitory town, the former black township of Soweto, remains desolate and undeveloped.
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