I'm not what you might call an old-timer, but I've seen some wonderful changes here.

Now, this land right here--fifteen hundred a foot; could have bought it not so very long ago for fifty.

I tell you the world never saw anything like it.
Why, just think of it; there are men now living who could have bought the best corner in this city for a mere song.

There's no other town like this.

Look at the buildings.