Stan and Rick dropped by his one-room shop and got acquainted with Paul, starting their lifelong friendship.

It's taken 114 years to build up Blackwells from a one-room shop to today's multi-million pound business.

The business he built from a one-room shop is now the Rand-Whitney Corporation, one of the country's largest manufacturers of paper containers.

Manuscrito Histórico, No. 50, (351-21) 346 4283, a one-room shop beneath an arched ceiling, is a trove of manuscripts, prints and beautifully bound first editions.

But Mr. Baird has chosen to make Truvy's one-room shop wide and bilevel, a layout that often causes the actors to make unnecessarily awkward stage crossings.

The question in the beauty parlor - a one-room shop in Baghdad's bustling Karrada neighborhood - was what would happen next.

Mr. Peralta, 59, said he took over the one-room shop about the size of a garage from his father.

Surma, a one-room shop near Third Avenue, is not the kind of place that has an extensive catalog or even much of a staff.

That's all this jam-packed, one-room shop sells.

There are also firms that deal exclusively in used and secondhand computer hardware, as well as small, one-room shops that sell software titles.