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.

Retrace your steps a few yards on the Via Di Santa Sabina and turn right on the Via Di S. Alessio, a street lined with stately homes.

Film historian Richard Griffith speaks of Capra's “... reliance on sentimental conversation and the ultimate benevolence of ordinary America to resolve all deep conflicts .” “ Average America ” is visualized as "... a still tree lined street, undistinguished frame houses surrounded by modest areas of grass, a few automobiles.

After the construction of the city wall, the Sacred Way and a forking street known as the Street of the Tombs again became lined with imposing sepulchral monuments belonging to the families of rich Athenians, dating to before the late fourth century BC.

Night view of a busy street lined with hotels.

The entire street is lined with two rows of Washington Palms.

The route is marked on the pavement, and is lined by distinctive blue street lanterns.

This was open to the public and lined with small shops rented out by the governor for almost 10, 000 livres a year, complete with a lodge for the Bastille gatekeeper ; it was illuminated at night to light the adjacent street.

This portion of the main street in Side is lined with the ruins of homes or shops, many of which feature their original mosaic tile flooring.

The area consists of suburban housing and a small business district along Alameda de las Pulgas, often just referred to as " the Alameda " ( literally, " Avenue of the Fleas ": in Spanish " Alameda " means a row of trees or a street lined with trees, which extends the length of the Pulgas family land grant — whose name means " fleas ").

On an appointed day, residents of both villages lined up on the sides of the street according to which town they supported as the location for the post office.

Hundreds of people had lined main street with signs and banners.

The street is lined with large 19th century Victorian mansions, some of which remain houses and some which have been converted into doctors ' offices.

The city's main street is lined with outfitters, outdoor clothing stores, and restaurants.

By the summer of 1899, a full array of businesses lined the village's main street.

Where main street was once lined with cars on Saturdays is now pretty much a ghost town.

Mercer is also known for its Memorial Day Parade with the main street lined with 500 flags.

When silver mining began in Little Cottonwood Canyon, entrepreneurs recognized Sandy's value as a supply station ; soon its main street was lined with hotels, saloons, and brothels serving miners ready to spend their newly earned wages.

By 1930 main street was lined with businesses and the town was incorporated on February 17, 1936.

Recognised as the centre of Her Majesty's Government, the street is lined with government departments and ministries ; the name " Whitehall " is thus also frequently used as a metonym for overall British governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding area.

The street is lined with many college-oriented businesses, such as bars, tanning salons, coffee shops, head shops, restaurants ( many dine al fresco ) and bookstores.

Today Kingshighway, also known as Business U. S. Highway 61 serves Sikeston as a primary north-south street and is lined with businesses and older historic homes.

* Brasschaat is renowned in Belgium for its long high street lined with various shops, cafes and bars.

Gardiner also laid out a mall down the central section of the street, lined with low granite walls and obelisks topped with oil-fuelled lamp globes.

Plans were drawn up for unified terraces or ' blocks ' of buildings, lined with retail outlets at street level and housing modern office accommodation in the upper floors.