Sentences with phrase «clapboard towns»

... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.

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I drove in thick congested traffic, and then the city ended and I drove through half - forgotten towns, past clapboard houses, Christmas lights slung everywhere like a strange imperative.

Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.

Seventy years ago, this town of clapboard churches and modest, pastel - hued homes was the hub of the sugarcane industry, which eventually went bust in 1975.

The town is all clapboard houses and coffee shops and antiques stores in which to while away the time.

Slowly, the town began to reinvent itself into a destination where visitors could experience old Hawaii town, outfitted with clapboard style buildings and a quaint swinging bridge that connected residents of Hanapepe Valley to the main town.

The quaint town of San Juan del Sur, with its Victorian clapboard houses and vibrant local scene, makes for the perfect place to begin exploring the southern pacific beaches of Nicaragua.

Only in L.A. would an international art fair occupy the clapboard storefronts of an abandoned Western saloon town movie set.