Main street of mid-west town during financial crisis - stock photo

Augusta KS, United States - June 3, 2010: It’s early afternoon, but looking more like “high noon”, in the largely deserted Historic State Street in Augusta, Kansas. The image captures the main street of a mid-west town in the midst of the global financial crisis, with empty shops, very few cars and not many people in town. One car and a couple of pickup trucks are parked in the street with a sale sign scrawled on the window of one shop.