Downstairs, of course, they took a different view.
Joseph Gourley designed the modest if expansive setting for the homey downstairs of Nellie's establishment.
The downstairs of the chicken barn is slightly smaller than a regulation size ring.
The downstairs of Barnes & Noble was filled with the rhythms and metaphors of young voices translating their imagination into poetry.
Sometimes the sound of a clarinet would drift up from the apartment downstairs of a jazz musician, who records for a label that Negrych owns.
From the downstairs of the building all the way up, life was in bloom: couples courting, Zionists and socialists arguing, parcels being delivered, rugelach cooking.
"We have some pretty neat pictures downstairs of lines going out police headquarters and down the street," said Police Lt. Jon Shelton, who oversees gun registration.
Restored Homes, and Pride Four and a half years ago, the downstairs of Kenneth Bourgeois's house in the Lower Ninth Ward was under 14 feet of water.
The downstairs of the house is also open seasonally to visitors, and parts of the upstairs and the basement can be visited on guided tours.
Elena lives in the downstairs of this elegant palazzo, which overlooks the waterfront, while the three rooms are on the third floor and above.
But they laughed, saying Mr. Weidel had been too drunk, or too careless, to have done an adequate job of sprinkling kerosene through the downstairs of the house.
