By 1840 the boom town had a population of over 4,000.
It was a boom town in the late 19th century.
By 1979 it had become a boom town with a population of about 32,000 people.
New York was a boom town then, and so the bars were open from early in the morning until late at night.
Midtown south is by no means a boom town, though.
Those were boom towns then, much like Houston in the 1970's.
In this southern Chinese boom town, he discovered, the game had already taken hold.
It became first a boom town and then a beautiful, wealthy city.
Ever restless, over the next 20 years Ed showed up at nearly every boom town in the west.
In the 1850s, the city grew fast, and was often referred to as a "boom town".