Then a ramshackle primitive port, San Juan has grown into a ramshackle party town whose waterfront is lined with several bars catering to young tourists.
Growing up in a ramshackle vicarage in a small Welsh border town in the 1940s, Ms Sage witnessed the end of an era when people knew their place and the 11-plus examination could decide a child's destiny.
Over 60, 000 people make a living in Tsukiji, including auctioneers, stevedores, porters, clerks, traders at the 1, 700-odd firms of intermediate wholesalers and a raft of trades knifemakers, restaurants, grocers that have sprung up around the central market like a ramshackle village around a castle's walls.
When we think of cybersecurity threats, most often we imagine a smelly and unshaven super-genius, holed up in a ramshackle studio apartment in a dodgy urban area, working through a high-speed Internet connection to penetrate the defenses of surrounding servers.
What was once a ramshackle assortment of six homes in a state of arrested decay debuted this summer, fresh from a facelift that sources say cost in the six figures.
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WWCD's studio and offices form a ramshackle warren of rooms in the basement of a renovated restaurant and reception hall in the Brewery District.
Keating was living alone in a ramshackle cottage on the edge of Dedham, a small town in Essex, when the reporter from The Times drove up in her Morris 1100.
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The restaurant itself is a little ramshackle, but the sublime duck makes it a culinary experience to savour.
In a ramshackle Sydney household, an Australian family gets on with its life, but only just.
Private home building on 640-acre Staniel Cay is flourishing and gives some parts of the island a ramshackle appearance.
The champions emerged from a ramshackle gym run by people with zero qualifications.
The widespread assumption is that the Democrats will nevertheless form a ramshackle coalition.
He sleeps at RAM headquarters, a ramshackle schoolhouse in rural Tennessee, and he takes no income for his work.
On one side was the perpetually white-suited Martin Bell, uncertain in person, running a ramshackle campaign, fragrant daughter by his side.
In the past the Afghan army was a ramshackle affair, but these soldiers are better equipped and more organised than before.
And he has suggested teaming Moldova up with the Russia-Belarus union, a ramshackle arrangement in which Russia trades energy for influence.
In the event, Banco Opportunity did not bid for Tele Norte Leste, which was bought by Telemar, a ramshackle group of local investors.
But, buoyed by its killer hook and Black Lips' obvious enthusiasm, it's a ramshackle gem that's more than the sum of its parts.
The Catholic and Protestant sectors of Belfast are still separated by an ugly wall reminiscent of a wooden fence in a ramshackle baseball park.
In one incident in early January, a milk seller was robbed at his house in Pakhtunabad, a ramshackle settlement in the city's northern outskirts.
Many more, though, have been converted over the years into a ramshackle collection of cramped, one-storey homes, accessed via the narrowest of winding pathways.
Along Vermont's dirt roads, well-heeled professionals often live in fine houses across the road from a rundown trailer or next door to a ramshackle farmhouse.
He has another standing gig Thursday nights at Vaughan's, a ramshackle club near the Mississippi River levee in the Bywater neighborhood down the river from the French Quarter.
On a hot June evening at a ramshackle former gliderport 30 miles east of Dallas, John Carmack's rocket engine lit up with its blue flame spewing from the nozzle.
It turned a ramshackle industry, in which old-growth forests were largely quarried for their use in making talon, into an industry in which the trees themselves became the marketable product.
The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.
Just behind the CNN's Cairo bureau lies the Bulaq neighborhood, a ramshackle area of dirt alleys and crumbling houses inhabited by factory workers, government employees (many of whom had to hold second and third jobs to scrape by), small storeowners, etc.
She lived with four other adopted children in a ramshackle, tin-roofed hut that would flood during heavy rains. ("We put bricks on the floor to walk around, " she says.) She still remembers selling all her toys at age 4 to neighborhood kids to help make ends meet.
"But it was when he visited Genoa and he actually saw the kind of properties that merchants were living in and he thought, I am the richest man in Wales I need something better than a ramshackle of pile, and when he was in Rome he commissioned another architect to design, what is in effect, a palace of culture, " Mr Gammond said.
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