Place of sudden prosperity

Usage examples of boomtown.

I repaired my relationship with Causey, a matter of simple apology, and from him I learned that the prison had been constructed in the 1850s and originally used to house men whose crimes were related in one way or another to the boomtowns of the Gold Rush.

In the olden days Waxahachie used to be a rich boomtown, the cotton capital of East Texas.

The miners came in, picking up the radioactives and the heavy metals, and they built their boomtown in this big impact crater, the only crater on the planet big enough and stable enough to provide a decent shelter, near the dawn line but safely in the dark, and everything was fine until somebody noticed that the city was still moving, and always in the same direction, toward the dayside.

Roughneck boomtown, was a crude cluster of buildings put together adobe-style from lunar concrete blocks.

It was trapezoidal in cross section and dated from the eighties boomtown, the years of the Bubble.

She sunbathed in the garden, listening to Tubeway Army and the Boomtown Rats on Radio 1, and dreamed about love.

Sorelledolce was one of the newer colonies, only a hundred years old, but its status as an associated planet meant that a lot of shady and unregulatable businesses migrated there, bringing full employment, plenty of opportunities, and a boomtown ethos that made everyone's step seem vigorous—and everyone's eyes seem to keep glancing over their shoulder.