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The article presents information related to Susan Romaine's painting "Lion Park Sorround. "Lion Park Surround" thus depicts an American Main Street in suspended animation. City curbs where buses have ceased to stop were the classic subject of Edward Hopper, who famously painted an empty street in 1930. Susan explains that she felt an immediate connection with Las Vegas, Nevada, a town that had been quite prosperous from the 1860s to 1920s due to its role as a major railroad hub to the West but now and for most of the past century quite frayed at the edges.