Sentence examples for bygone city from inspiring English sources
At the same time, he's trying to fashion a new lens for bringing this bygone city into sharp, contemporary focus.
The books that embody the bygone city are predictably sparse, as the literature of Old Portland was produced piecemeal, without the benefit of cultural infrastructure of any kind.
Artists on New York rooftops, and around them, the old industrial framework of bygone city life, something aesthetic and exotic, either marvelled at or ignored.
But with the death last month of Mr. Reisman's friend and rival, 94-year-old Sol Schiff, the man known as "Mr. Table Tennis," the game's departure from a bygone city era has perhaps never been starker.
Re "On Long Island's North Shore May Sit a Piece of Brooklyn" (April 20): The Kings Park Psychiatric Center isn't the only surprising detached remnant of the bygone city of Brooklyn.
Yesterday afternoon, a crowd gathered to look at, and to buy, some images of that bygone city: cigarette smoke curling over a rakishly tilted fedora, a pistol on the pavement and a body in the gutter, a mysterious blonde with a drink in her hand, Bowery bums and gleaming black sedans.
The Crown Victoria was a big rear-wheel drive sedan that shared its platform with another almost-bygone staple of city streets, the Lincoln Town Car, a favorite of limousine companies.
At its most elaborate, motion-picture production may involve the expenditure of vast sums to put up gigantic sets that require building houses, ships, churches, and monuments or re-creating lost cities, bygone landscapes, or ancient battles and dressing thousands of extras in period costumes.
The latter won an immediate cult following for its crystalline imagery of a bygone era in the city.
Many of them benefit from huge warehouse spaces, a legacy of the city's bygone era when the cattle trade was king.
Read's closed its landmark downtown store on the corner of Broad and John streets in 1981, leaving the boarded-up building as a reminder of the city's bygone prosperity.
