It was a glamorous stretch, lined with palm trees and glitzy old-world hotels.

With its blocky hotels and beaches lined with deck chairs, the Adriatic coast here is Italy's answer to the Jersey shore.

It led him into a broad, terraced street, lined on both sides with hotels, most of them looking grubby and cheap.

Fire-gutted hotels lined the riverfront road.

In the early 1900s, ritzy hotels lined the main street of Winnipeg Beach.

Years ago cabanas and small hotels lined the mile-long beach, and New Jersey residents swam in the clear waters between here and Staten Island.

Tacky hotels and karaoke bars line the streets, while prostitutes troll for visiting businessmen.

Though locally owned hotels and seafood restaurants line the beach, there's not a skyscraper in sight, thanks to development codes limiting buildings to no higher than four stories.

Banks, hotels, stores, churches, a school, and numerous homes lined its commercial district and residential streets.

Eventually, over 30 hotels would line Bethlehem's streets.