While the population has since more than doubled, the place retains a small-town intimacy.
The theater's red-velvet balcony seats are shabby, but the place retains an aura of dignity.
The place retains Restaurant du Village's sense of well-tended intimacy, but the couple has modernized the look.
You will spy few absinthe drinkers at the bar today — it is far more glamorous — but the place retains an air of bohemian bliss.
The Portuguese colonized Macau in 1557, and although China now runs this region near Hong Kong on the southern edge of China, the place retains its Portuguese character.
She said the regeneration of Brixton and parts of Hackney provided a template for Tottenham in as much as "the place retains its identity and the economic, physical and social potential is realised".
Drivers buy their Renault Fluence electric sedan but Better Place retains ownership of the battery, the car's most expensive component, and subscribers to the company's network pay a monthly fee based on how many miles they drive.
The place retains the look of a great house with broad staircases, French doors and fireplaces, white oak floors, and four upstairs bedrooms.
Most states have privacy safeguards in place, retaining nothing in the database but a randomized ID number and a photo of the registrant.
But such places retain an eerie and half-finished feel to visitors – which perhaps shouldn't be surprising.
