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Reasons to Move There: It's Annie Hall's hometown. After hours, computer mavens snowmobile across Lake Wisotta and drink Leinenkugel Beer, a small regional brand founded in 1867. Want to live downtown? An old shoe factory is now a sparkling, affordable apartment building...
...Didn't Die: Mark Twain's "white town drowsing" on the banks of the Mississippi was regularly swamped by floods until a breakwater was built in 1992. When it held during the Great Flood of 1993, downtown's comeback was assured...
Reasons to Move There: Twain Memorial lighthouse anchors a grand riverfront park; next to the bronze Tom and Huck statue is the Twainland Cheesecake Co., a booming business (producing 110 varieties) run by a formerly homeless woman and staffed by onetime welfare moms. Requisite latte bar just opened downtown...
...Didn't Die: When the oil refinery closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...
...Didn't Die: Business owners anted up special taxes to pave sidewalks and bury power lines, and banks came through with low-interest loans to polish up downtown's Last Picture Show facades. Austin cowboys rode in searching for a piece of hill country to call their...