# Textures of Time: A Vanishing America Told in Pictures

<http://weburbanist.com/2010/07/14/textures-of-time-a-vanishing-america-told-in-pictures/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

All across America, a familiar type of landscape can be found: empty buildings, decaying storefronts and deserted streets. They’re not ghost towns, but rather the remnants of a different time. Main streets which were once booming centers of commerce are now often populated with the imagined ghosts of a time when super-stores and corporate chains were still on the far horizon.

## Facts

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