The downtown is a well-preserved example of a traditional small-town main street.

It used to be that up and down big-city or small-town streets across America, a young man could earn a few dollars shining shoes.

He looked out a window at the silent small-town street, a street he had never seen until yesterday.

The album has the hushed heaviness of a small-town street at midnight, the scratchy simplicity of a 78-r.p.m. record.

Maple Lane seems to be a well-shaded, small-town street.

Ford Street was as deserted as only a small-town street can be early on Sunday morning.

Nevertheless, many have diaristic charm - portraits of the artist's daughter playing guitar, for example, or views of small-town streets populated by cars and trucks.

Or there would be a hell of a lot more violence in these small-town streets.

If this scenario evokes strong masculine associations - the sulking antihero stalking small-town streets - it is only natural, considering the story's origins.

The story opens on a small-town street.