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In article <1992Sep29.201130.23051@riacs.edu> chguest@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov ( Charles J. Guest ) writes:
|Back east there are a number of working communities that incorporate a
|theme of some sort into the community... some are continental, others
|like the Amish communities really live the way they appear.
|
|In California I have only run across one such place ... Solvang which
|incorporates a Dutch theme.

Many towns have festivals or parades which tend to show a theme or lifestyle
in that town.  Pacifica has it's fogfest, Gilroy has the garlic festival.
The town I was born in, Ft. Bragg, has as it's primary industries logging
and fishing.  Every year there is a weekend called "Paul Bunyan Days", a
weeklong festival that includes logging events (log rolling, chopping, 
climbing) and a parade featuring "Paul Bunyan" and "Babe", his blue ox.  Ft.
Bragg also has a working fishing harbor and throughout the town the motif
can be seen in the form of decorations on the houses.  My aunt and uncle have
a statue of sea gulls and fisherman on their front lawn.  At my grandparents
there is a large rusted saw blade on the garage door.  The town has a large
Portuguese population and the fishing heritage is displayed as a result.

>The town is sort of a tourist trap,

As many are that attempt to display a common heritage.

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