Between the 1910s and the 1980s, two generations of the family's forebears collected Near Eastern and Central Asian rugs and maintained a rug storeroom at each home.
For now, while Webb and Friedman bury each other in legal briefs, the storeroom -- complete with a view of the Hollywood sign -- sits all but empty.
Soon, in the darkened storeroom, two clerks, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, will gather each other into their first kiss, and the last shot of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film "The Shop Around the Corner".
Each of the cottages had a kitchen, a storeroom and a privy.
A big room that might once have been a storeroom had been split into mini-classrooms, each about 15 feet square, separated by chest-high partitions.
"It's a way to turn $200 into $800". Every coupon or deal posted to her website is vetted by making a purchase, so employees buy dozens of items each week that go into the company's Boise, Idaho, storeroom to be "shopped" by local refugees.
In Mercedes, in May 1995, only 2 adults (1 from each of 2 domiciles) and 1 nymph in a storeroom were captured.
And yet each of those items spends quality time in a refrigerated storeroom at one of the market's 59 wholesalers.
In the storeroom behind the shop there are three booths, each the size of several phoneboxes, piled with bags of clothing .They're usually almost filled to the ceiling," says the manager.
The 5-by-8-meter basement storeroom held 40 large jars (examples in image), each of which could have held about 50 liters of liquid.
