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Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, an adolescent boy whose wish to be "big" transforms him physically into an adult. The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins , David Moscow , John Heard , and Robert Loggia , and was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg .
With the added success of catalog sales many franchise locations began to open across the country as the pop art style caught on through the 1980s. The unique creations have been featured in many films including Forrest Gump and Big both starring Tom Hanks. Think Big! catalogs. Think Big flourished in the 1980s, when the scaled-up aesthetic was ...
Finnish branch of the Salvation Army in Brooklyn's Finntown (1942). A Finntown is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States. In the United States there were a dozen Finntowns. In the Finntowns were services for Finnish people, usually at least a co-op store, a church and a town hall.
A haltija (haltia) is a spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic haltijar , which referred to the original settler of a homestead—although this is not the only possible etymology.
The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City.It opened in 1969 and closed in 2016. The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966), which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
The government-funded export program is an offshoot of Business Finland, which doles out $500 million annually to help further growth for start-ups in virtual reality, entertainment, green energy
W. & J. Sloane advertisement from September 1902. W. & J. Sloane, (W&J Sloane, Sloane's), was a chain of furniture stores that originated from a luxury furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the prominent, including the White House and the Breakers, and wealthy, including the Rockefeller, Whitney, and Vanderbilt families.
8-Twelve may look like a 7-Eleven, but don’t let that fool you. The part pop-up, part real-life convenience-store showed up seemingly out of nowhere in New York City, and now TikTok is obsessed ...