It's one boarded-up building after another, with hardly a place open to get breakfast.

Of course she knew the problems: the crime, the poverty, the boarded-up buildings, the closed plants.

Today the main street is lined with boarded-up and burned-out buildings.

You must see a preening hotel where there is now a boarded-up building.

The abandoned, boarded-up buildings that surround the school seemed to fade away.

There are four boarded-up buildings on the land, one a former theater that once had an international reputation.

"They looked just like that," she said, pointing out the window at a row of boarded-up buildings.

Ten years ago, the village was in decline, with vacant stores and boarded-up buildings.

In 1980, there were 198 boarded-up buildings, and the 1990 census counted 505.

"But look around now at the unemployment, the crime, the boarded-up buildings."