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Gaiety Theatre (planning/construction) Majestic Theatre (1915-30) Paramount Theatre (1930–76; 2000-present) Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts (1976-2000) Address: 713 Congress Avenue Austin, Texas 78701-3216: Location: Downtown Austin: Coordinates: Owner
Barbara Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1930 [10] [notes 1] in Woolwich, London, the daughter of Jack Quant and Mildred Jones.Her parents, who both came from Welsh mining families, had received scholarships to a grammar school and had been awarded first-class honours degrees at Cardiff University before moving to London to work as schoolteachers.
The facility was designed to have four theatres, ranging in size from a 232-seat studio theatre to a grand theatre seating over 2,000. With the slowing economy in 2002–3, the Long Center Board of Trustees, major donors, community arts leaders, and staff began researching methods to decrease project costs.
Mary Quant, the visionary fashion designer whose colorful, sexy miniskirts epitomized London in the 1960s and influenced youth culture around the world, has died at 93.
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The Ritz was built in 1929 by J.J. Hegman, who owned several movie theaters in Austin, Texas. It was the first theater in Austin to be built specifically for the talkies. The architect was Hugo Kuehne, the founding dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture, who also designed the Austin History Center (originally the Austin Public ...
Sixth Street is a historic street and entertainment district in Austin, Texas, located within the city's urban core in downtown Austin. [2] Sixth Street was formerly named Pecan Street under Austin's older naming convention, which had east–west streets named after trees and north–south streets named after Texas rivers (the latter convention remains in place).
The current Texas State Capitol is the fourth building to serve that purpose in Austin. The first was a two-room wooden structure (located on the northeast corner of 8th St and Colorado St) which served as the national capitol of the Texas Republic and continued as the seat of government upon Texas' admission to the Union.