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Coincident with the venue, Electric Factory Concerts began as a concert promoter, also owned by Larry Magid. [5] In 1995, Magid and Spivak reopened the Electric Factory in a converted building from the General Electric Switchgear Plant on 7th and Willow Street. [4] In 2016, it was named the 16th best venue in the United States by Consequence. [2]
The historic West End was largely razed in the 1950s and 60s which led to a large drop in population from 67,520 in 1950 to 17,068 in 1970. This razing was done as part of a series of urban renewal projects and the construction of Interstate 75, its interchange with Interstate 71 and the construction of the 6th St Expressway for U.S. Route 50.
A later antitrust suit by rock promoter Stephen Starr against Electric Factory Concerts was also settled for the same amount in 1990, which then financed Starr's rise as a star in the restaurant industry. Electric Factory Concerts remains the dominant Philadelphia concert promoter, though the brand is now owned by Live Nation Entertainment. [7]
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At its west end, US 50 was extended south from Sacramento along U.S. Route 99 to Stockton and west to the San Francisco Bay Area, replacing U.S. Route 48, by the early 1930s. [20] US 50 was officially cut back to Sacramento in the 1964 renumbering , replaced by Interstate 580 , [ 21 ] but remained on maps and signs for several more years.
U.S. Route 50 Alternate (US 50 Alt.) was a 292-mile (470 km) alternate route of US 50 in Nevada and Utah. It existed from the 1953 to the 1976 and followed the original routing of US 50 from Ely , Nevada to Moark Junction , Utah (roughly 11 miles [18 km] south-southeast of Provo in what is what is now the east edge of Spanish Fork ), via Salt ...
The site is near (south) of another GM facility at the time, called Chevrolet Gear & Axle Division, which itself was the combination of two former factories, called Detroit Gear and Axle and Detroit Forge, which had occupied the location at Holbrook Avenue to the south, Lumpkin Street to the east, Poland Avenue to the north and I-75 to the west ...
US 50 west (Arlington Boulevard) Continuation into Virginia: 0.2: 0.32: George Washington Parkway north: Westbound exit only: I-66 west (Theodore Roosevelt Bridge west) Western end of I-66 concurrency; westbound exit and eastbound entrance: 0.2– 0.5: 0.32– 0.80: Eastern end of Theodore Roosevelt Bridge: Foggy Bottom: Independence Avenue