Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On September 15, 2014, Margaritaville Biloxi officially closed. [12] The property was listed for sale in 2015 with an asking price of $18 million. [13] In 2019, a new group of developers filed plans to reopen the casino as the Biloxi House at Point Cadet. Their $200-million project was to add a 300-room hotel and various other amenities to the ...
Shipley Do-Nuts began in 1936 by Lawrence Shipley. When Shipley first created his recipe, his doughnuts were cut by hand, served warm during the day, and sold for $0.05 (equivalent to $1.1 in 2023) per dozen. Shipley and his family worked at their original bakery on 1417 Crockett Street in Houston, Texas.
In May 2012, the hotel was added to Biloxi's list of blighted properties, and the owner was given the choice of demolishing the structure, renovating it to meet city codes, or selling it to a developer. [8] In April 2013, the City of Biloxi announced that the White House Hotel had been sold to a Mississippi developer.
The newly restored facility is built on "more storm resistant" cement pilings rather than the former floating barge as originally mandated by Mississippi law, and features seven restaurants, including a Hard Rock Cafe, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Half Shell Oysters House, close to 500 hotel rooms and suites, a full service spa, a nightclub, over 1400 slot machines, 56 table games, outdoor beach ...
Biloxi Blues is the story of army recruits during World War II training at Keesler Field, the present-day Keesler Air Force Base. Biloxi is the setting of several John Grisham novels, including The Runaway Jury (1996), The Partner (1997), and The Boys from Biloxi (2022). A substantial portion of Larry Brown's novel Fay is set in Biloxi.
www.gulfport-ms.gov Gulfport ( / ˈ ɡ ʌ l f ˌ p ɔː r t / GUHLF -port ) is a city in and a co- county seat of Harrison County, Mississippi , United States. It is the second-most populous city in Mississippi , after Jackson , and part of the Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area .
Gus Stevens Seafood Restaurant & Buccaneer Lounge was a restaurant and supper club on US Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Gus Stevens, the Greek-American owner, came to the Gulf Coast in 1946. [ 1 ]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.