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Originally built as a vaudeville venue, the theatre underwent conversion into a movie house in 1929 and for decades it presented both movies and live entertainment. . Throughout the 1920s, the Chicago-based Orpheum circuit brought famous names like: Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Jack Benny, George Burns, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Gracie Allen, Gypsy Rose Lee, Bing Crosby, Mickey Rooney, and ...
Residential Resources of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas 1870–1957 MPS. The district is a 40-acre property northwest of Wichita's aircraft related industrial district. It consists of Linwood Place Addition and Darrah’s First Addition platted in 1943 and 1949, respectively.
The routing of U.S. Route 81 onto Broadway Avenue, which runs north-south through South Central, along with rail lines further east triggered commercial and industrial development. Motels, restaurants, and service stations opened along Broadway in the 1950s and 1960s. Similarly, warehouses and industrial facilities were built along the railroad.
The Dunbar Theatre is a movie theater in Wichita, Kansas, United States.Opened in 1941, it was named after an American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. [1] It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places since July 2, 2008, and the Kansas State Registry of Historic Places.
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Downtown Wichita is the central business district, government and social core of the Wichita metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Kansas.It is home to several of the area's major landmarks and event venues including the Epic Center, Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Intrust Bank Arena, Equity Bank Park, Keeper of the Plains sculpture, the Old Town entertainment district, and ...
South City is located at (37.6375, -97.321944) at an elevation of 1,281 ft (390 It consists of the area between the Arkansas River to the west and south, Pawnee Street to the north, and Southeast Boulevard and Chisholm Creek to the east.
A popular McDonald’s location open in Wichita for about 60 years closed this week, but residents won’t have go too far to get their Big Mac fix.. The restaurant, located at 1050 N Broadway ...