Neighborhood volunteers set up several sidewalk libraries last summer to encourage reading among children.

On warm evenings, the sidewalk cafés fill with laughter and the clinking of glasses.

We spent the afternoon chatting at a cozy sidewalk café and watching people pass by.

On warm evenings, sidewalk cafes fill with friends chatting and sipping espresso.

By midnight, the shopkeepers were rolling up the sidewalks, sweeping their storefronts and turning off the lights.

At midnight, the shopkeepers rolled up the sidewalks and the town fell into an eerie silence.

Every night after the last diner closes, the proprietor literally rolls up the sidewalks and heads home.

Every evening, the merchants roll up the sidewalks by six, leaving the streets deserted.