Bob says that the thing he finds exciting about the Main Street movement is the growing understanding that local businesses are dependent on one another.
"Originally, Main Street had the saloon, the hotel, the livery, the general store, the church - all of the services - because they all needed each other. That interdependency is what spelled doom for so many downtowns in the 1970s and 1980s when they didn't care what the other guy was doing."
