He then smiled a bit, reminiscing on Chumley's fabled past.

Home to Bath Iron Works, which with 8,000 employees is Maine's largest employer, Bath also has a fabled past as a shipbuilding center.

In MGM/UA, Mr. Parretti is acquiring a company with a fabled past and a troubled present.

The neighborhood is almost entirely dependent on tourists looking for gelato and a glimpse of the area's fabled past, when it was hopping with mob bosses, movie stars and local characters.

Yet only an alarmist could pretend that the art boom in Harlem will erase the neighborhood's fabled past.

There is no use pretending that the level will anytime soon reach the heights attained in the fabled past.

Wouldn't G.M., which faces a ruthlessly competitive present with no resemblance to its fabled past, be better off with a boss who has the passion to embrace change?

And, of course, the Cyclone, the rickety-looking roller coaster that roars over an amusement park with a fabled past and a faded present.

During the oil boom, Houston, which did not have a fabled past of its own, spared no expense in putting a veneer of refinement over its rough-and-tumble core.

But as hundreds crowded inside, the long, arching timbers, so lovingly wrought by artisans of the fabled past, caught fire.