In the prosperous past - and still today - herds of cattle roamed the endless pastures known as the pampas.

The Bury was lined with shops, now almost all converted to private homes, the broad windows of which still speak of a prosperous recent past.

Yonkers had a grand and prosperous past.

But several of Fort Bragg's attractions recall a more prosperous past.

The main street has a "rural brick charm" to it and many older houses continue to reflect Cayuga's prosperous past.

Tobacco farming is a thin shadow of its prosperous past.

Some economists and executives here seem to talk nonstop about Czechoslovakia's prosperous past as testimony to its potential for the future.

The mills stand as symbols of a prosperous past.

For Ms. Principe, it is all a bit dizzying because until several years ago, she knew little about her family's prosperous past.

Kars is a city in suspended animation, a museum of its more prosperous past.