America's Favorite Hometown Businesses

Well known writers discuss their favorite "Main Street USA" businesses -- what makes America's old main streets unique.

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August 5, 2002, 2:00 PM PDT

In "America's Favorite Hometown Businesses," Inc. magazine celebrates the "charming, idiosyncratic, and lovable" businesses that Main Street still has a monopoly on. From Feathers, a bird shop in Marlborough, Massachusetts, to C.C. Filson luggage in Seattle, the short articles by writers, entertainers, and "influential people" are paeans to the anti-Wal-Marts of Main Street, USA - some still kicking, others of blessed memory.

Thanks to Dateline APA

FULL STORY: America's Favorite Hometown Businesses

Sunday, August 4, 2002 in Inc. Magazine

Community / Economic Development United States

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