Trudy Ederle was the daughter of a German butcher who had a prosperous shop on Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side, and a summer cottage in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.
A few months later, Kennedy placed a call on his behalf and suddenly Brown was a partner in the high-powered Washington law and lobbying firm that is currently Patton Boggs, then as now a prosperous shop with a simple rule for screening clients: all comers welcome as long as their checks clear.
Now Sonoma State Historic Park's re-created buildings and exhibits stand cheek by jowl with the prosperous shops and restaurants of downtown Sonoma.
A ONCE-PROSPEROUS shopping area of Art Deco buildings here that included Bloomingdale's first suburban store is the focus of efforts to restore its commercial vitality, fueled by hopes that it will benefit from other new developments in the city.
Even the most prosperous of shops cannot remain in business if its customers decide to stop buying.
Exuding confidence as he sat openly talking politics in his prosperous furniture shop, Abu Fahad, using a nickname to protect against retribution, said protesters were unlikely to choose leaders from Mr. Assad's Alawite sect after 40 years of his family's rule, but do not hate all Alawites.
The visible butchers are like a badge of freshness for prosperous Lusakans, who shop here in droves.
Sightseeing As early as 1800, covered arcades allowed prosperous Parisians to shop without getting their feet wet.
