False Fronted

Michelle George for the Reeler: "The idea seems to be that we are bad by default, goodness is the extreme exception; other cultures, especially, are hotbeds of badness, as is the past, and exploring either or both of them is only useful insofar as it provides a cheap, false-fronted allegory for the present." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Although it was called a movie ranch, the Cimarron also boasted a false-fronted Western street with saloons, general store, and sheriff's office. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Rollant wondered if an enraged northerner would come boiling out of the false-fronted wooden building, ready to do or die for his mother's honor, if any. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2002)

From Sixth Avenue over to Fifth, Allen Street consisted mainly of wooden, false-fronted buildings that leaned over the boardwalk toward the wide dirt street - a post office, a hardware store, the office of the Tombstone Prospector newspaper. ❋ Stewardson, Dawn (1991)

Each had a huge production lot dominated by barn-like soundstages where the interior scenes of movies were shot, a make-believe New York City neighborhood, and a western town with false-fronted saloons and a dusty main street for exterior shots. ❋ Ronald Reagan (1990)

It was only up close that one noticed that the buildings were really false-fronted, weather-beaten structures with no breath of life in them. ❋ Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren (1984)

A frame-built hotel, a livery-stable, a small church, a school-house, a line of false-fronted stores, and some three-score dwellings failed to arouse in George an enthusiastic desire to become a permanent resident of Cow Run. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

Sunlight and motion, false-fronted buildings, tents, and mountains, and fever -- that is the camp on the desert. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)

Down that long thin street the shadows of false-fronted stores lay like blue slag on molten iron. ❋ Henry Wallace Phillips (1899)

Its main streets are lined with false-fronted wooden buildings and decked walkways, and much of the downtown area forms the Klondike Gold Rush ❋ Unknown (2010)

Next it was a row of wooden false-fronted buildings that sprung up overnight. ❋ Unknown (2009)