When a shell road first connected Coney to the rest of Long Island in 1829, developers dreamed of a resort that would rival Newport, R.I. Renewed attempts to gentrify Coney Island led to the erection of Victorian curios like Coney's Colossus, a 150-foot-high, tin-covered hotel built in the shape of an elephant, with a cigar shop in one of the legs and an observatory in the howdah.
The predecessor highway of MD 150 was an oyster shell road from the village of Highlandtown (later annexed by Baltimore) to Chase.
Here, about an hour south of New Orleans, the writers followed Bayou Lafourche (pronounced la-FOOSH) to the gulf along a "graveled and shell roadbed" that is now Louisiana Highway 1, fully paved.
It is an old oyster-shell road that has been thinly paved with asphalt; the asphalt is cracked and pocked and rutted.
To this period belong, for example, backwoods, hoe-cake, pop-corn, land-slide, shell-road, half-breed, hired-girl, spelling-bee, moss-back, crazy-quilt, stamping-ground and cat-boat.
The whitened dirt lanes of Bonaventure Cemetery bore a resemblance to the crushed oyster-shell roads leading to Mercer's old summer haunt on nearby Burnside Island.
Al Qaeda and other foreign fighters had occupied the ridge and used it to shell the road below.
Having been defeated in their attempt to retake the crossing, the Qaddafi militias now seem content to shell the road, trying to disrupt the rebels' efforts to resupply towns in the area.
In the southwestern mountain region, loyalist forces shelled a road leading from a critical border crossing near Dhiba, Tunisia, that was seized by rebel forces last week, The Associated Press said.
Two homes were damaged by tank shells, a road was torn up, water pipes were damaged and street lights were knocked down.
AROUND the two-story hospital, 15 miles down a shelled-out road from Mogadishu, a veritable city has sprung up over the years, 90,000 refugees living in bubble-shaped huts made out of plastic sheeting and sticks, people who have flocked here because it is considered one of the few safe zones in southern Somalia.
