Sentences with phrase «became ghost towns»

Image: ReBurbia When Ken Eklund created his alternate reality game World Without Oil, one of the emergent themes of the «historical pre-enactment» was that the suburbs became ghost towns.

Jan 04,2016... Ski towns once became ghost towns when the snow melted, leaving the lodges to the chipmunks and the...

For a whole day, with the exception of the non-stop action in Watertown, the city became a ghost town.

It became a ghost town until the National Park Service acquired it in 1998 and turned it into a popular tourist destination.

Military personnel have since Tuesday night moved out of the town which virtually became a ghost town Tuesday due to the arrival of the military and police personnel.

«And I feel like we're going to become a ghost town.»

My mother worked for nearly 20 years as a scientist at DuPont, which later became DuPont Merck, which then became DuPont Pharmaceuticals, whose campus then became a ghost town when it was bought by Bristol - Myers Squibb.

THE International Space Station has provided a continuous human presence in space for more than a decade, but it could soon become a ghost town.

Maintenance is non-existent, and the area has become a ghost town.

Park City was settled in 1870 as a mining community but nearly became a ghost town when the mines of the area penetrated the water table and flooded.

Instead they become Ghost Towns.

Joffan, despite what you think I know for a fact that if the coal industry in Gillette, Wyoming dried up the place would become a ghost town in no time flat.

The wealthy will move out of Palm Springs, and Las Vegas could become a ghost town.

Manhattan's southernmost tip also became a ghost town every weekend.

Not exact matches

Anyone trying to assess the health of the retail industry is sure to be bombarded with doomsday predictions, hailing the shuttering of major brands, and America's strip malls becoming dilapidated ghost towns.

The Great Chili Confrontation, as it was to become known, was scheduled to happen in the Texas ghost town of Terlingua.

Bunkpurugu has become «a ghost town» following renewed gunshots in the area which has led to a halt in business activities forcing traders and town folk to flee for dear life.

This includes cities in the US, such as his hometown of Chicago, which also becomes «a ghost town from the right angle».

But Sarah and her husband, Paul (Scott Speedman), soon learn of an ancient legend that haunts the town and has created a culture where ghosts have become the answer to anything that goes wrong.

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All of which makes him an outcast in his small New England town of Blithe Hollow until an ancient curse proves to be more than a myth, which is when Norman's ability to see ghosts becomes more than an unfortunate eccentricity.

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The ghosts of James Whale, Maya Deren and Peter Weir smoke a blunt as Griffen becomes a sort of spirit - hero in a town worm - squirming with self - laceration, incest, S&M, and the killer bogeyman of failing machismo.

However overall, Ghost Town is a gentle romantic «date movie» that is saved from becoming a total «chick flick» by Gervias» delightful and at times gleeful turn as the cranky yet in the end likable Dr. Pincus and by comedic dialog so well written by David Koepp and John Kamps and delivered under the deft direction of David Koepp that you just can't stop laughing.

But I fear without radical revision of what urban education can be, our Missouri city schools can become veritable ghost towns.

The old zones become virtual ghost towns, snapshots of that have no signs of player life, other than the occasional player hoarding and farming crafting materials.

Ciudad Juárez has become «the ghost town» with many abandoned buildings and destroyed landscapes.

Remember the 2008 story in the same magazine that said $ 200 per barrel oil was imminent, that commuters would become petroleum refugees & that the suburbs would shortly turn into ghost towns?

Wagner's Point became a vacant, industrial ghost town — and Curtis Bay was right next door.

Describing the packs of former users signing off the site for good, she wondered if Facebook was no more than a college clique, doomed to become an «online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages, with packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit.»