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town's and heyday
While Falmouth's maritime activity has much declined from its heyday, the docks are still a major contributor to the town's economy.
The river town of Baltimore thrived and was a major center of trade until the river was overshadowed by the railroad for purposes of trade and transportation ; a single house, built long after the town's heyday, is all that remains.
Businesses which formerly served US 66 travellers in the town's heyday included the Palmer Hotel, Rogers ’ Motel, Rest Haven Motel, Green Acres Motel and Avon Motor Court, Baker ’ s Cafe, Clint ’ s Cafe, Smith Store and Barrett ’ s Food Store, Mack ’ s Place and Fred ’ s 66 Bar.
The town's heyday was the first decade of the 20th century, when Shaniko served as a transportation hub spurred by the presence of the Columbia Southern Railway, a subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad, which built a branch from Biggs Junction to a terminus in Shaniko.
It operated 24 hours a day during its 1950s heyday, but business diminished after the Turner Turnpike diverted cross-country traffic from the town's main street.
With the population increase during the town's silver mining heyday of the mid-sixteenth century came the need for a new church, which was built over a period 21 years and inaugurated in 1761.
The heyday of the town's prosperity as a trading port in the late 18th and early 19th century is shown by the large number of town houses of that period, many of which are now used for other purposes such as offices and shops.
The red brick and stone Imperial Hotel which had been the largest in Malvern during the town's heyday as a spa in the second half of the 19th century, is still one of the largest buildings in Malvern and was built in 1860 by the architect E. W. Elmslie who also designed the Great Malvern railway station, the Council House, and The Grove in Avenue Road in 1867, originally to be his private residence which in 1927 became part of the Lawnside School for girls.
In its heyday, during the Communist regime, the factory employed about 5000 workers, about half of the town's population.
The population was an estimated 700 at the town's heyday.
A synagogue mosaic remains from Ein Gedi's heyday, including a Judeo-Aramaic inscription warning inhabitants against " revealing the town's secret " – possibly the methods for extraction and preparation of the much-prized balsam resin, though not stated outright in the inscription – to the outside world.
As a last witness to the town's economic heyday early in the last century, the former spinning works tower has been maintained as an industrial memorial.

town's and seaside
* Several watchtowers, such as the Torre Calderina ( 15th century ) on the seaside, and the Torrione Passari, inglobated in the town's walls.
Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival ( which takes place in early September ) that is named after one of the town's ancient names.
The town's economy was initially based upon fishing and agriculture as in the case of Brixham across Torbay, but in the early 19th century the town began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the Royal Navy anchored in the bay and later by the crème de la crème of Victorian society as the town's fame spread.
Torquay's economy was, like Brixham's, initially based on fishing and agriculture, but in the early 19th century it began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the Royal Navy anchored in Torbay and later, as the town's fame spread, by Victorian society.
A lot of people can also afford more time off and ' second holidays ' and short breaks which still attract a lot of people to British seaside towns and a lot of young people and students are able to take short holidays and to discover the town's nightlife.
The town's mayor, Futoshi Toba, was at his post at the city hall and survived, but his wife was killed at their seaside home.
In the 1830s, a group of London investors, who recognised Herne Bay's potential as a seaside resort, built a wooden pier and a promenade on the town's seafront.
Due to the town's traditional seaside appearance, it has often been used as a setting for television programmes and films.
The town is now split between the seaside area known as " Lower Gibsons ", which is mostly residential but also includes Molly's Reach, which achieved fame in The Beachcombers, as well as shops and restaurants catering mostly to vacationers, and " Upper Gibsons ", which is clustered along Highway 101, and which contains the commercial areas of town including Sunnycrest Mall, the town's two major supermarkets, a variety of fast food restaurants, as well as the high school.
The town's low rainfall and ample sunshine made it popular as a seaside resort, with tourists arriving by steamboat and train.
However, by the late 1850s, the combination of the new western railway route and the rise of neighbouring Blackpool as a prominent seaside resort signalled a decline in the town's fortunes.
Portarlington's picturesque setting and fine sandy beaches attracted visitors from Geelong and Melbourne, and the regular steamer service secured the town's progress as a popular seaside resort.
The town's suburbs include Kanifing, Latrikunda, Sukuta and London Corner, and the town flows into the seaside resorts of Bakau, Fajara and Kotu.
Tourism is now one of the largest components of the town's economy, with tourists typically drawn by the areas fishing, water sport and seaside atmosphere.

town's and resort
A summer resort close to the Maryland – Pennsylvania border, Blue Ridge Summit was popular with Baltimoreans escaping the season's heat, and Monterey Inn, which had a central building as well as individual wooden cottages, was the town's largest hotel.
Tribal development there, such as the recently opened $ 80 million Lake of Isles golf resort, has proven to be a welcome addition to the town's tax base.
Several factors contributed to the town's decline as a major resort.
The town, which is located in the midst of the Appalachian Mountains, is best known as the site of a popular wintertime tubing resort known as Hawksnest, which claims it has the largest tubing facility on the East Coast, and some of the town's year round residents earn their living at the resort.
The town's status as both a port and a holiday resort led to economic success in the nineteenth century, with a railway line and a cross-channel ferry to Honfleur in France being introduced.
It was largely responsible for the town's early development as a summer resort location.
Marazion is a thriving tourist resort with an active community of artists who produce and sell paintings and pottery in the town's numerous art galleries.
Today the town remains a popular tourist resort, this being the town's primary industry, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions.
Historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire, with a population of around 50, 000 in the town's boundaries, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast.
The town's career as a resort declined from the 1960s onwards when foreign travel became an option for large numbers of people.
The town's fresh air and still-rural environment drew increasing numbers of visitors, and Rutland became a minor recreational and health resort in the 1880s.
After two centuries of decline, the town's fortunes were dramatically revived by the patronage of the Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George III, in the 1780s, and then of the King himself, who regularly used the town as a holiday resort between 1789 and 1811.
The name " Bad " means " spa ", reflecting the town's history as a health resort.
The Mont Cascades resort opened during the 1960s and 1970s and represents a major part of the town's recreational and touristic assets.
It is known as a beach resort and is home to a genocide memorial marking the massacre of 90 % of the town's Tutsi population in the Rwandan Civil War.
This town's white-sand beaches to the east that faces the Pacific Ocean are well known in surrounding towns and cities. One famous beach resort here is the Rizal Beach Resort which hosts the PhilHobie Challenge.

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