And in this digital age, the proverbial "open for business" sign that used to dangle in the front shop-window has been replaced with the search bar.
In small towns or larger cities, I could move around on my own, looking for souvenirs at the small open-front shops that lined the streets or sipping tea in a chai shop, sitting cross-legged on a Persian rug.
COMPARED with the tiny hill towns surrounding it, Great Barrington is the southern Berkshires' big city: it has a downtown of brick-front shops, an industrial area remade as artists' studios, even a triplex movie theater.
By E. B. White and Gilbert Highet The New Yorker, March 6 , 1954P. 19 A critic of books was buying flowers for his wife the other day in one of those Lexington Avenue open-front shops, near Fifty-ninth Street. Fifty-ninth Street
That's not really a challenge, Shield said as he surveyed the landscaped expanse fronting shops offering $5 coffee and $9 hot dogs served on baguettes.
The nonprofit Housing Works Bookstore Cafe anchors the northern end; the coveted designer Derek Lam just opened a gleaming glass-front shop at the southern end; and along the way are the unspoiled details of a bygone era.
Soldiers goose-stepped in front of shops selling the wares of Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.
The hotel is a great launching pad for the Cape Town water front district, shops and restaurants.
"And they obviously wouldn't want me front of shop.
The explosion had brought down concrete beams and ripped open the fronts of shops.
Tarnished Lady finished second, four lengths in front of Shop Till You Drop.
