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The Five Points Theatre, formerly known as Sun-Ray Cinema, Riverside Theater and 5 Points Theatre, is a historic two-screen movie theater in Jacksonville, Florida. [2] The first theater in Florida equipped to show talking pictures , it opened in March 1927 in the Five Points district of the Riverside and Avondale neighborhood.
Southpoint is a commercial section of Jacksonville, Florida on the city's Southside area, eight miles from downtown. The area consists primarily of commercial buildings, apartment complexes and professional office centers. St. Lukes Hospital, built in 1984, is on the corner of Southpoint. It is now known as St. Vincent's Medical Center ...
Inside the theatre in 2022. By the 1970s, the Florida Theatre was in decline and on May 8, 1980 it was forced to close. The historical significance of the Florida Theatre and its architecture led to a $500,000 grant from the State of Florida and a $350,000 grant from the City of Jacksonville HUD Community Development Block Grant with an additional $150,000 from fundraising.
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Hordes of train passengers passed through Jacksonville on their way south to the new tourist destinations of South Florida, as most of the passenger trains arriving from the population centers of the North were routed through Jacksonville. The Riverside Theater, which opened in 1927, [52] was the first theater in Florida to show talking pictures.
A Mexican-Fusion burrito-centric restaurant focused on customized, fresh-made-to-order fare opened the first of several planned Northeast Florida restaurants on March 8 at 9810 Baymeadows Road ...
Teresa Stepzinski, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union Updated August 16, 2023 at 9:13 AM Chow's Country Buffet is preparing to open at 4250 Southside Blvd. in the former Golden Corral location on ...
State Road 113 (SR 113), also known as Southside Connector, is a 2.770-mile-long (4.458 km) state highway. The freeway travels almost due north–south entirely within the neighborhood of Jacksonville known as Arlington. This is completely within the city limits of Jacksonville, in Duval County, in the U.S. state of Florida.