Grand Designs

I wonder how many towns ended up like this from what seemed to be grand beginnings?

And how many of us have grand dreams only to wake up years later to find that life was just the same-old-same-old? I don't think anyone works, or even plays with the assumption that things will turn out crappy. Sometimes they just do though.

I bet there are loads of little towns that thought they were gonna be the next big thing, but missed by a hair.