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"Main Street is dead. Dead as the Bijou Theater with double-feature programs that changed three times a week. Dead as the dry-goods store that used to sit at the intersection of Washington Avenue. Dead as the trolley car that used to clang down the middle from the First National Bank all the way out to the Bosky Dale Amusement Park. Dead as Sinclair Lewis. Dead, dead, dead.
"I must have been aware of its death for years, but I had never acknowledged it, had never said right our loud: 'Main Street is dead.' It died years ago. Main Street has been dead for years, and it's never coming back."
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Russell Baker. "There's no Main Street in America anymore, only shopping centers." The New York Times. 16 September 1984.
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