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  • But most of what's going on here is about the present—the brick warehouses, dive bars and century-old storefronts that have been repurposed to suit a Seattle of bold chef-owned restaurants, handcrafted-cocktail bars, art galleries, rock venues and coffee shops where you can easily lose an afternoon.

    Sea and Symphony 2011

  • When Joel Baker first became bar manager at San Francisco's century-old Crescent Hotel, whose brick-walled, velvet-couched Burritt Room depicted below is one of the city's most romantic film noiresque hideaways, he learned the hard way that vegan cocktails aren't as easy as they seem when a customer sadly handed back to him a glorious herb-inspired concoction he had devised that contained honey.

    Anneli Rufus: Are Animals in Your Cocktail? Anneli Rufus 2011

  • A century-old armory recently vacated by the military in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn is beginning the lengthy process that will determine its long-term future.

    Armory in Brooklyn Regroups Joseph De Avila 2012

  • The couple's winter home is the ivy-covered two-story stone manor house, "le Moulin" Mr. Venet painted the shutters an uncharacteristic black tinged with olive green, named after the century-old water mill in the basement that used to generate electricity.

    Venet: A French Artist and His Domain Lanie Goodman 2011

  • By suggesting that financially strapped consumers would be better off without access to credit, José García repeats a common fallacy in the century-old litany of complaints about consumer debt.

    Letters to the Editor 2009

  • The Culture of the Wedding Gown The store is housed in a century-old structure that was once a bank, and after brides select the dress they think is "the one," they step inside what used to be the old bank vault.

    One 'Magic Room' That Links Generations of Brides Jeffrey Zaslow 2012

  • By suggesting that financially strapped consumers would be better off without access to credit, José García repeats a common fallacy in the century-old litany of complaints about consumer debt.

    Letters to the Editor 2009

  • “The underage girl and century-old dead guy, awkwardly in love.”

    Book Review: Ryan Mecum’s Vampire Haiku | Fandomania 2009

  • No one in the Obama administration wants to admit to century-old thinking, but how else to explain its lawyers-know-better approach to an industry as dynamic as wireless?

    AT&T and the Economics of Monopoly L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

  • He's here six to seven days a week at all hours learning the ins and outs of running the century-old establishment.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Genial Beer Garden Host Nancy Ruhling 2011

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