TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Richard O
TI  - Main street blues : the decline of small-town America 
T2  - Urban life and urban landscape series
SN  - 9780814207826
U1  - 977.171 22
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Columbus 
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - City and town life
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Camden (Ohio)
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index; Prologue. Plainville, U.S.A.: The Towns We Left Behind --; 1; Dover: The Building of a Community --; 2; Winesburg: Life along Main Street --; 3; Camden: The Halcyon Days of the 1920s --; 4; Depression: "The Worst of Times" --; 5; War: "Camden Behind the Men Behind the Guns" --; 6; The Last Picture Show --; 7; Main Street In Repose --; Epilogue. Camden: The Town We Left Behind
N2  - Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden. Davies describes the development of the relatively self-sufficient community that emerged from the Ohio land rush of the early nineteenth century, a community that reached its apex during the 1920s and then entered into a period of slow decline caused by forces beyond its control; He details the roles of land speculation, the railroad era, the impact of the automobile, the emergence of a tightly knit community, and finally the post-World War II loss of business and population to the nearby cities of Dayton, Hamilton, and Cincinnati
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