Word: storefront
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house) opened with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The admission price was $1.50, and the coffee was free...
...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
...specific "clientele" and so is less likely to have interlocking relationships with it. The chairman can widen his awareness of consumer problems--he need not address business groups uncountably more times than he addresses consumer groups. He could send investigative groups to ghetto areas, and establish storefront offices. This must be done by a new chairman, but it is questionable if any but an exceptionable appointee will resist the wooing influence of business...
Enrique Blanco, a 29-year-old Puerto Rican, has been through that routine and now goes five days a week to a storefront clinic run by Beth Israel's Morris J. Bernstein Institute. There he takes a maintenance dose of methadone and leaves, in exchange, a sample of his urine; on Fridays he receives a ñapa of two methadone drinks to take over the weekend...
...Here we are," says the cabby, stopping at No. 429 Broome Street, an unlighted storefront in lower Manhattan with a FOR LET sign taped to one black-painted window. By day, Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny...