Sentences with phrase «ghost towns in»

Back in 2005, Krishnan Suthanthiran, an Indian - born entrepreneur, followed his own passion when he purchased Kitsault, a ghost town in B.C., for $ 5.7 million, and turned it into an eco-village-cum-park.

It's like a ghost town in my building today.

When the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spear.

(Amboy is also the name of a ghost town in the Mojave Desert.)

That being said, I'd have never visited places like Darien, GA where I printed at a refurbished plantation house called Ashantilly Press, or Menagerie Press, situated in a ghost town in Terlingua, TX where I printed in a hand - built adobe hut overlooking the Chisos Mountains.

With his solo exhibition «Kolmanskop Dream ``, Tayou creates a mental sculpture of the city of Kolmanskop, a former colonial German settlement and today's ghost town in the Namib Desert.

The conflation of these approaches takes place in an exhibition environment: one that includes photographic prints and readymade objects taken from the actual location of Amboy, a ghost town in the Mojave desert that serves as the central location of the film.

In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall... to the enormous delight of scientists.

Especially compelling is Delingpole's description of a ghost town in Australia created wholly by the presence of a wind farm.

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 team took over part of an existing, home - grown amusement park called the J. Lorraine Ghost Town in nearby Manor, Texas, and spent five weeks building out the existing structures, bringing the place up to the necessary safety codes, and hauling in a train car actually used in the Westworld series.

Rockey recalls a «thriving» Harrisburg in the 1960s when she was growing up, followed by what she described was a ghost town in the 1980s and 1990s.

Not exact matches

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

Rhyolite is one of Nevada's largest ghost towns, and formed in 1904 during the Gold Rush.

However, it's not technically a ghost town because it has a single resident named Philip O'Connor, who has lived in the same house that his parents and grandparents occupied.

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

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

Foreigners are being hired to pose as celebrities by Chinese real - estate developers to help agents sell property in «ghost towns» by making them appear more animated and worldly, according to a new mini-documentary released by The New York Times.

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We were able to grow the Help Scout blog from a ghost town to a thriving community of 30000 newsletter subscribers in a paltry 12 months.

Welby, who was accompanied by security personnel for the duration of his trip, was told that Israel's decision to close the area had resulted in a «ghost town».

We went camping with our ENTIRE family in Calico Ghost Town (in the heart of the California desert) during labor day weekend.

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

Sightseeing in Puerto Williams is an intellectual exercise in ghost town visualization.

As the restaurant grew in popularity so did the long wait times, which led to the creation of Knott's Berry Farm's first attraction - Ghost Town.

Who can forget this moment from the final stages of the 2012 European Grand Prix in Valencia, before the race was ditched and the track turned into a dishevelled ghost town.

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forevin the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forevin the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forevin the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forevIn the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

You are currently eating a cookie from your hidden freezer stash, your produce drawer is a ghost town and there hasn't been a green in sight since you packed away the last of the Christmas decorations.

The group said that all the communities in Gbaramatu are already ghost towns because of the heavy presence of the military personnel who were already acting in commando style, stressing that the rights and privileges of the people must be respected as anything that will bring a repeat of the events of 2009 when the military invaded Gbaramatu will not augur well for the state and the country.

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.

High - Rise is the third coordinated sweep of illicit narcotics sales in 2011, following Operation Deadliest Ghost in the Village of Nyack in January and Operation High - Tech in the Town of Haverstraw in April.

The Queens native called Upstate New York a ghost town, but said residents in the region think he's «like the most popular person that has ever lived, virtually.»

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

While the ghost town of Pripyat» registered dosages of up to 300 milliroentgens per hour in the wake of the meltdown, most areas in the Zone of Alienation show average radiation readings of 43 microroentgens per hour — the same dosage absorbed by residents of Denver.

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.

Certainly our strangest story of the year, this item concerns a curious find in Chile's Atacama Desert: an alien - looking 15 - centimeter - long skeleton reportedly discovered inside a pouch in a ghost town.

The old gold - mining town, once bustling with saloons, brothels, gambling halls, and even opium dens, is now a ghost town, probably the most famous one in America.

Known as the Sands of Hell, Namibia Skeleton Coast National Park houses some incredible shipwrecks and a Ghost Town formerly known as Kolmanskop, which was founded in the early 1900s by a large German population when diamonds were found in the desert but abandoned 40 years later.

While kids in most cities around the US can be seen frolicking in the streets on a normal summer day, the streets here are reminiscent of ghost towns.

It's getting a little cooler in the mornings here and although our pool is open until October, it's a ghost town.

In our Cougared review we found a site that long ago peaked and had fairly quickly been turning into a virtual ghost town.

I live in a little ghost town called Isabel.

Or, rather, there is oil under an abandoned church in the ghost town of Coltsville.

During a lull in the siege, Hopalong Cassidy does a bit of snooping around and learns the truth about the ghost town.

That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him.

Amirpour's movie is all set in the fictional suburbs of Bad City, Iran, an eerie ghost town haunted by The Girl (an excellent Sheila Vand), a young vampire who finds her way into this miserable circle of people.

Eschewing the typical film - festival awards ceremony, Fantastic Fest announced its awards at its closing - night party, held this year at a backlot - style «ghost town» that's a favorite for Old West - themed weddings in Austin.

He believes that the people in the town are just a bunch of backwards rubes and that there are no such things as ghosts.

By the time we got there it was long after dark, and a relative ghost town, most of the shops along the boardwalk darkened in their off - season slumber.

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