The New Yorker, February 13 , 1926 P. 7Bway familiar with middle-aged decoys, sitting in empty sight-seeing buses to tempt out-of-towners.
The once-bustling streets are completely empty, an eerie sight.
All in all, the theater industry was facing the daunting prospect of dozens of empty theaters, a sight not seen since the economic crisis of the mid-1970's.
Undershaw, in Hindhead, Surrey, has become a sorry sight, empty and vandalised, but this is where Conan Doyle wrote some of his most famous stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles – though his story Silver Blaze, with the famous line about the incident of the dog in the night-time, was written earlier, in the 1890s.
When I arrived on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not an empty table in sight.
The final game of the day was at Providence Park in Portland where unlike some of Saturday's games, there was not an empty seat in sight.
In previous seasons wry deconstructions of the fair environment, taking a buzz saw to the walls of the booth, for example, or leaving it mostly empty, were common sights.
The teams initially priced some tickets so high — as much as $2,500 each — that the sight of empty box seats became a symbol of excess and hubris.
Moreover, the sight of empty seats does not create a good TV product, which, after all, is the prime goal of the ECB marketeers.
Many have moved to the slums of nearby Karachi; others remain in desolate villages, stunned by the sight of empty canals.
