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Article: Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America
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- Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. Richard V. Francaviglia. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1996.
In Main Street Revisited, Richard Francaviglia examines one of America's most cherished images through the material culture and artifacts left behind by architects, town developers, and image makers. The author is well-suited to the task having spent more than three decades tracing Walt Disney's Main Street USA to its roots in Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado.
For the purpose of this study, Francaviglia focuses on small towns with populations between 750 and 30,000 and defines Main Street as the downtown commercial area. The ...