The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

It is always difficult, or at least time-consuming, to get approval of any kind of line under a public street, as one example.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.

This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.

One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

He is the sort who, with an appraising eye, would cross the street to help a strange woman on to a bus and then pinch her.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

A street sign in Vienna, " Fußgeher " is normally replaced with " Fußgänger " ( in English " Pedestrian ") in Germany.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

* A street in Belgrade ( Serbia ), next to the Belgrade University Library which is one of the Carnegie libraries, is named in his honor.

It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

Already in the thirteenth century, the counts mentioned the House of Peace, located in Nimy street.

From this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street and continuous danger.

The street Drury Lane is also where The Muffin Man lives as mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme.

They have also mentioned the street bearing his name in the song called La Manifestation.

Gene Krupa's " Syncopated Style " is mentioned by a street musician in the 1976 film Taxi Driver.

He mentioned that Raglan is one of the few towns in New Zealand with recycling bins in the main street, and describes how people he knew became involved in recycling because of Xtreme Waste's programs.

The street is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song " Human Hands ", in Van Morrison's song " Heavy Connection ", in the Midnight Oil song " Mountains of Burma ", the Sloppy Seconds song " Germany " from their album Destroyed and in the Runrig song " Song of the Earth ".

At this juncture, the queen mother's popularity, secured by such populist early acts as mentioned above, had abated considerably and she was known in the street as " the Spanish woman.

Many of the street names and towns mentioned on the show are real New Jersey street and town names.

The impermeability deficiency of the typical cul-de-sac street can be addressed by applying a modified, improved version of it, mentioned above, that enables pedestrian and bicycle through movement.

The street is mentioned in Adrian Mitchell's poem Celia, Celia:

As already mentioned, pie floaters are typically purchased in the street from pie-carts as a late evening meal.

Langlois also mentioned that people refused to walk on the same side of the street as Pelletier while others called him names in public.

This Passy street is mentioned in the archives of 1730 as a way of skirting the walls of the Château de la Muette.

" On the Inman street side " and " looking toward Boston road " are mentioned.

Veryan was originally mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the manor of Elerchi ( now Elerkey in street names etc.

Dearborn Station is repeatedly mentioned in the 1974 " Adam's Ribs " episode of M * A * S * H, in which Hawkeye Pierce raves about the barbecued ribs at a fictional restaurant located across the street from the station, and calls the stationmaster from South Korea to get the restaurant's phone number.

* In the 2002 film Gangs of New York, the Bowery is a mentioned territory of the Bowery Boys, a street gang of the late 19th century during the New York Draft Riots.

The street has also been mentioned in songs by Willie Nile, Jim Croce, Regina Spektor, Dire Straits, Bill Callahan, Saint Etienne the Vancouver Twee pop band cub, Sonic Youth, Two Gallants, Steve Earle, Beastie Boys, Paul McDermott, Billy Joel, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, The Clash, the Ramones, Jesse Malin and The Foetus All-Nude Revue, The Lumineers, Deerhunter, among others.

* Nearby Acorn Street, a narrow lane paved with cobblestones, often mentioned as the most picturesque ( or the most frequently photographed ) street in the United States.

The street was mentioned in Jan and Dean's 1964 hit song The Little Old Lady from Pasadena.

Mount Akagi is mentioned in the street racing manga and anime series Initial D. The portions of Gunma Route 62 Coordinates + 36 ° 34 ' 22. 83 ", + 139 ° 13 ' 57. 56 " and Gunma Route 257 Coordinates + 36 ° 33 ' 37. 54 ", + 139 ° 17 ' 21. 03 " that pass by Mount Akagi are featured in numerous Initial D episodes.