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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.  The town is sort of a tourist trap,
>incorporating lots of little shops, and a number of restaurants and
>wonderful bakeries.  The town is modeled after the Dutch Hans CHristain
>Anderson theme with windmills and appropriate structures and
       ^
(SWEDISH spelling!)


I have read all the responses to date, and I am surprised that nobody
has mentioned that both Solvang and H.C. Andersen  began as Danish,
not Dutch.
Solvang was a very pretty town when I first saw it in the mid-fifties.
It began I believe as a small town/retirement community for
people of Danish origin or descent. Unfortunately, someone(s) had
other ideas for its future.


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