Between 1916 and 1985, when the mine was closed for lack of profit, more than $53.3 million of mining money helped pay for Ajo's mill, smelter, power plant and equipment, along with the housing, hospital, store, theater "and other elements essential to a modern American community".
For example, between October and December, Chase Freedom [gave] five points per dollar — 5 percent cash back — on dining, department stores, theater tickets and charitable organizations.
They have been turned into rug stores, drug stores, theaters and catering halls.
Manhattan, especially, was a mix, a hodgepodge of homes, stores, theaters, restaurants and bars.
In Boston, Millennium bought two parcels on Washington Street, in an area known as the Combat Zone, a rundown mix of stores, theaters and sex-related businesses.
The Smithsonian's retail operations (including stores, theaters, food and beverage services, and kiosks) brought in $14.7 million on $58.7 million in revenues.
The dispute is the latest chapter in a four-decades-long attempt to redevelop the block, which housed restaurants, nightclubs, pornography stores, theaters and T-shirt shops.
Hiring picked up in retail stores, theaters and fast-food restaurants after a sluggish start to the holiday season in tourist-attracting businesses, said James Brown, principal economist for the Labor Department.
"My goal," Koeser said intently, "is that the day comes when they say: 'I want to move back to Williston.' " You would expect that, as population and incomes rose, new stores, theaters and restaurants would follow.
Throughout the 1880's, Gotham had been gradually electrifying, and the citizenry proudly gloried in the dazzling blaze of the electric arc lights in stores, theaters, and high above the main streets and avenues on tall street poles.
The Wall Street Journal compared the development to the "company towns" of the early 20th century, where factory workers lived in company housing and were provided with health and law enforcement services, grocery stores, theaters, churches, etc.
