But now the street overflows with Chinese workers - officials, bankers, shippers, dumpling vendors and cart pullers.
I cannot believe that our streets are not overflowing with protesters against all the measures.
The nearby streets Mallorca, Valencia, and Provença are also overflowing with interesting shops.
The cellar of one pub in the town, the Tradesmen's Arms was flooded while drains in many streets overflowed.
Now, its a day when the streets are overflowing with market stalls and the pubs are kept extremely busy.
The streets of Buenos Aires overflowed with huge piles of flowers stacked.
Nearly all the houses were made of mud brick, and the streets sometimes overflowed with the sewage from ancient cesspits.
So many people walked home from work that the main streets and bridges were overflowing, with many pedestrians trudging in the streets among the cars.
It was Friday night and the streets were overflowing.
The streets were overflowing with life-as they had been, I thought, for sixteen hundred years.