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...show any life. Once a stop on the Underground Railway for slaves (Mark Twain's Jim was hoping to head north from there), it was ripped by racial protests in the 1960s and '70s and has never fully recovered. But Main Street was recently repaved with bricks and fake trolley tracks at a cost of $1.5 million (all from federal and state grants), and the biracial city council hopes to turn Cairo into a tourist destination by renting out stores for $1 a year to businesses that will attract weekend visitors. At a barbecue featuring grilled bologna as well...
...heat and elevators. For food, Gold Coast residents simply walked down the street to their social clubs, which offered some of the best cuisine in Cambridge. At the same time, public transportation was reaching new areas of the city. Boston and Cambridge were united by a modern and efficient trolley system, and soon it was difficult to convince students of modest means that they should live in Harvard's bedraggled dorms when the prospect of cheaper rooms off-campus presented itself...
...Haul that ass over to The Castle in a glass-enclosed trolley. You better work...
...Preservation Act - it started in 1965 - and was due to continue until 2005. The Chronicle prints in the morning, while the Examiner remained an afternoon paper. But in this age of continually updated headlines available on your desktop, there's little demand for the newsboy in front of the trolley stop shouting the day's headlines to afternoon commuters, and the 120-year-old Examiner's readership has dwindled to about 100,000 daily. Fang has said that as owner he would break the paper away from the Chronicle and convert it to a competing daily. Hearst has offered...
...movies of her father Vincente, director of such classic Hollywood musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch before (like The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis) and demonstrates that her voice, if not the exuberant, no-holds-barred instrument it once was, can still curl stylishly around numbers like I Got Rhythm and Baubles, Bangles and Beads. A little nostalgia, a little Broadway pizazz, a little coming to terms...