There always seems to be a crowd hovering around the one-room open storefront on Salah Salem Street in Old Cairo.

Drawback: cigarette smoke, especially near the open storefront.

On Mott Street's open storefronts, my parents would pick through the bins of live crabs, sluggish but still menacing to a wide-eyed girl.

The California swell of coffeehouses - with their open storefronts and outdoor seating - has finally blown East.

The next stop was an open storefront on a dirt road.

Today, Canal Street is a bustling commercial district, crowded with low-rent (compared to other Manhattan real estate) open storefronts, and street vendors to the west; banks and jewelry shops to the east.

Fulton Mall, at first glance, is open storefronts, street peddlers, flamboyant signs and teen-agers hanging out.

The homes were open storefronts.

The Shrewsbury City Council in fall 2010 was expected to consider a plan to turn Kenrick Plaza, which has several open storefronts, into a Walmart store.

He also pioneered the combination store concept, through his idea of leasing open storefronts to produce vendors and butchers, innovation which would eventually lead to the development of the first supermarket in California.