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The original venue opened in 1922 [5] as a 2,000-seat motion picture and live entertainment theater. It continued as a movie theater into the 1970s. The building served as home to the Downtown Athletic Club from 1980 until 1998. [6] The NorVa reopened as a concert venue on April 28, 2000, with James Brown performing the inaugural show. [7]
The Granby Hotel is a historic building in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The first hotel on the site was the "Sinking Ship", which opened in 1670. By 1736, it was named "The Royal Oak", at the time that John Metcalf was recorded as playing the fiddle there. [1] It had a barn which was used as the first theatre in the town. [2]
When Riverview Theater opened in Norfolk in 1947, it boasted state-of-the-art amenities for the time: 700 seats, postwar air conditioning and an indoor box office, allowing patrons to stand inside ...
The city rebranded its commercial core the "Granby Mall." Granby Street was closed to auto through-traffic, repaved, landscaped and new street furniture and fixtures were installed. Granby Mall was a concept by city leaders with the best of intentions, but it actually ended up speeding the demise of Granby Street as a viable commercial destination.
The New Year's Eve ball first fell in 1907, welcoming 1908, though Times Square celebrations began at least three years earlier. The first ball was made of iron, wood and lightbulbs.
Marvin Heemeyer was born on October 28, 1951, on a dairy farm in South Dakota.In 1974, he moved to Colorado because he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base. [3] In 1989, [3] he moved to Grand Lake, Colorado, about 16 miles (26 km) away from Granby.
The James Earl Jones Theatre, originally the Cort Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 138 West 48th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was built in 1912 and designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb for impresario John Cort.
Jason Christophe White is an NAACP Theater Award-winning American playwright, his one produced play being The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Aaron White (no relation). Jason White is also the co-owner of In Tha Cut Productions. [citation needed]