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The Rip Van Winkle Bridge is a 5,040 ft (1,540 m) cantilever bridge spanning the Hudson River between Hudson, New York and Catskill, New York. Affording 145 feet (44 m) of clearance over the water, the structure carries NY 23 across the river, connecting US 9W and NY 385 on the west side with NY 9G on the east side. The bridge also passes over ...
Joseph Jefferson playing the role of old Rip Van Winkle in 1869. ... Over the bridge, fledgling turn-of-the-20th-century West Palm Beach was poised to become a city of importance, Jefferson noted. ...
The name Rip Van Winkle has been used to name: Infrastructure (Rip Van Winkle Bridge) [39] [40] Consumer goods (Old Rip Van Winkle whiskey) [41] [42] Music: American composer George Whitefield Chadwick wrote a concert overture titled Rip Van Winkle in 1879, when he was a student in Leipzig.
The Devotions are an American doo-wop group. [1] Their single of a novelty song called "Rip Van Winkle" was released in 1961 on Delta Records; the tune was re-released on Roulette Records in 1962 and again on Roulette in 1963. [2]
In 1933, during the construction of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, the Authority acquired the Mid-Hudson Bridge, originally built by the State Department of Public Works in 1930. Of note, the toll for a round trip across the Mid-Hudson Bridge for a car with 3 passengers in 1933 was $2.20, more than the $1.75 charged today.
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in an intimate moment from Olivia Wilde's sophomore feature, Don't Worry Darling. (Photo: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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Fred Leslie as Rip Van Winkle, 1882. Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette.The English language libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille and Henry Brougham Farnie was based on the short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) and "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.