Go ask a sole proprietor doing business on the main drag of your town.
Francos Wine Merchants, a family-owned business on Elm Street, the main drag in New Canaan, Conn.
The newest contender is the Whiteface Lodge, opened in 2005 a few blocks off the main drag in Lake Placid.
Emek Refaim, the main drag of the German Colony neighbourhood in southern Jerusalem, is lined with new restaurants and high-end boutiques.
In 1982 so much cash flowed through the town that the main drag -- Wall Street -- seemed like the real thing.
And the fact that the area is just a little way off the main drag reminds you that the margins are where the deepest interest lies.
On the main drag in this community east of Los Angeles, you can buy cowboy sombreros and discount quinceanera dresses for Sweet 15 parties.
The main drag seemed to be continuing pessimism on the part of large corporations, seeing their sales and earnings affected by the global economic slowdown.
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With 32 rooms, an excellent restaurant and brand-new spa, the flower-strewn terraces, twisting stairways and verdant courtyards of this Mediterranean villa are strol- ling distance from the main drag.
Along the main drag of Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, the trees had lost their leaves, revealing sparse playgrounds with wooden seesaws and painted steel climbing bars between the buildings.
But apparently life in the prison, which is beautifully preserved, with its well-manicured yard under large monkeypod trees just off the main drag, was not all bad.
Robyn Karnauskas at Deutsche Bank, a Dendreon bull, says this is the main drag on the stock, although she argues that the demand is in fact very big.
Walking down the main drag of Brooklyn Heights, where we now lived, I stopped to pet a tan mutt, the mascot of an animal-rescue group that had set up a booth at the corner of Montague and Hicks.
The road builders association, 105 years old and headquartered just off the main drag in Georgetown--the residence for many if the capital's power brokers--has 40 employees in Washington, 5, 000 corporate and public sector members, and a fierce ability to set an agenda.
After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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On the bustling main drag, Broughton Street, Urban Outfitters is joined by cutting-edge boutiques.
The vice presidential nominee can quickly drag the main candidate to the right, as McCain learned.
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.
That created a 180-mile round trip to buy wardrobe basics, but it also left a big hole in the town's main drag.
Atlantic Avenue, the city's main drag, has been reduced from a thriving artery that pumps cars toward glitz and glamour to a haven for pawn shops, check cashers, and outlet stores.
In 1927 Ralph Peer, a producer with The Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a recording studio on its main drag, State Street, and by the end of that year he had recorded 19 performers.
On Cambridge Street, a main drag in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, the sunny day had the feel of a Sunday morning with few stores open.
Though Helena is most notable for the archetypal small-town look of its main drag, Cherry Street, closer inspection reveals that many of its business premises and factories are abandoned.
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There was the year mascara icon Tammy Faye Bakker and drag queen RuPaul walked arm in arm down Park City's Main Street (the odd couple were promoting "The Eyes of Tammy Faye, " a documentary about Bakker's life).
For the full-on Tudor inn experience, opt for the Shakespeare Hotel 15 in an atmospheric timbered building on Stratford's main drag.
One of America's most beloved comedies, 1959's zany "Some Like It Hot, " starring Marilyn Monroe and drag-bedecked Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, used the Hotel del Coronado as a main location.
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