The Worst Town In The Nation
3 December 2001 - 8:00am
Gene Weingarten searches for the 'Armpit of America."
"Take a small town, remove any trace of history, character, or charm. Allow nothing with any redeeming qualities within city limits -- this includes food, motel beds, service personnel. Then place this pathetic assemblage of ghastly buildings and nasty people on a freeway in the midst of a harsh, uninviting wilderness, far enough from the nearest city to be inconvenient, but not so far for it to develop a character of its own. You now have created Battle Mountain, Nevada."
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Why Not the Worst?
Source:
The Washington Post, December 2, 2001
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