Sentences with phrase «gathered in the town squares»

For half a century, from Boyle Heights near downtown into East L.A., past the pawn shops and muffler garages and taquerias along Whittier Boulevard, Angelenos have been cruising their cars at a pace that would embarrass a glacier in an internal - combustion riff on the traditional Mexican paseo — where young men and women would gather in town squares to eye each other and mingle, the more determined men arriving on horses decked out like parade floats.

La Tomatina is one of the world's most unusual festivals in which people gather in the town square of Buñol to pelt each other with squashed tomatoes while trying to grab a leg of ham from the top of a greased pole.

I remember when I visited Spain, my first international trip at age 13, that I loved how at night everyone gathered in the town squares to hang out.

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When the seventh month came - the people of Israel being settled in their towns - all the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate.

Dozens of local residents gathered at the Town Hall Meeting on Monday night to weigh in on developers Washington Square Partners and Acadia Sherman Plaza's newly revised application for the Sherman Plaza project site on 4650 Broadway — which was shrunk down following earlier public criticism on the project.

Made in Milwaukee celebrates its 10th event showcasing the city's treasures with its biggest gathering yet, a free daylong festival in Cathedral Square Park that begins with the East Town Farmers» Market in the morning and ends with an 8:30 more

Opening in a town square in Salamanca, Spain, a crowd has gathered to hear the opening speeches of a World Leaders» Summit on combatting global terrorism.

Well now that shouter is you, the box is metaphorical, and the people gathering around you are home on their couches instead of in the town square.

You'll find the Pirate's Well dug by buccaneers that roamed here in the past; a former U.S. military base and tracking station built in the 1950s; and the Abraham's Bay Town Square, with an old homestead of a prominent family; and the «well shack» where locals gathered to collect water as late as the 1980s.

Founded in the early 1900s as a plantation town whose residents worked for the island's then nascent pineapple industry, Lanai City remains the island's residential gathering place with most of its shops, restaurants and business forming a town square around Dole Park.

In his longest piece, 21 Grams (2010), which took him four years to produce, he shows a magician performing on an empty stage as men in top hats gather in an ominous town squarIn his longest piece, 21 Grams (2010), which took him four years to produce, he shows a magician performing on an empty stage as men in top hats gather in an ominous town squarin top hats gather in an ominous town squarin an ominous town square.

Placed in the heart of town, in a public square surrounded by the village's most important institutions (church, school and cultural centre), it was essential to capture the heart of the community and provide a fresh and inviting place to gather and enjoy.

19 February 2015 It was a hot day in the Amazon, and 80 or so members of the Gavião indigenous people had gathered under the thatched - roof structure that serves as their town square, clad in blue - jeans, feathered headdresses, and ceremonial beads.