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The Jolly Roger restaurant (which had never been known as Nunley's) changed its name to "Robin Hood" in 1974. While the name of the restaurant changed, in the restaurant, everything else was the same. The restaurant (as Robin Hood) closed in 1976, and the park followed in 1978. (Some sources say 1977.) [8] [9] [10]
The Jolly Roger raised in an illustration for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance "Paul Jones the Pirate", a British caricature of the late 18th century, is an early example of the Jolly Roger's skull-and-crossbones being transferred to a character's hat, in order to identify him as a pirate (typically a tricorne, or as in this ...
Originally, Balboa Island was little more than a mudflat surrounded by swampland. Today's Newport Harbor emerged only after dredging millions of tons of silt. In the late 1860s, James McFadden and his brother, Robert, purchased a large portion of the future site of Newport, including the oceanfront of Newport Beach, much of Balboa Peninsula, and the sandbars that were to become Balboa Island ...
Jolly Roger (frog), a minor character in the Banjo-Kazooie video game series; Jolly Roger (Pirates of the Caribbean), a primary villain of the Disney MMO Pirates of the Caribbean Online; Jolly Roger, secondary character in the animated cartoon television series I Am Weasel; Jolly Roger, a character in Grant Morrison's comic book series The ...
While these are distinctly different squadrons that have no lineal linkage, they all share the same Jolly Roger name, the skull and crossbones insignia and traditions. [1] After disestablishment of VF-84 in 1995, the Jolly Rogers name and insignia were adopted by VF-103, which later became VFA-103, the subject of this article. There has been ...
Jolly Roger Records was a New York City-based bootleg record label active briefly in the early 1950s. It was founded by an enthusiast of early blues and jazz music named Dante Bollettino (sometimes misspelled Bolletino).
Bullock's Fashion Square debuted with 32 stores including branches of boutique department stores I. Magnin, Desmond's, Haggarty's and Mandel's, plus the Jolly Roger restaurant. There was parking for 3000 cars and opening day drew crowds of 40,000 people from across Orange County, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Anaheim Town Square (originally East Anaheim Shopping Center, later East Anaheim Center, East Anaheim Plaza), is a 372,185-square-foot (34,577 m 2) community shopping center, the largest center in East Anaheim, California which was built at the intersection of Anaheim-Olive Road (renamed Lincoln Avenue in 1962) [1] and Placentia Avenue (now State College Boulevard).