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The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. [4]
City Council District 1 is a slender geographic area that covers most of the city's central area, roughly bordered by I-410 to the north, I-10 to the west and south, and I-37/U.S. 281 to the east. Alamo Heights, a separate municipality located a couple of miles northeast of downtown, is an inner suburb that is often considered central.
The replica of the Alamo built for John Wayne's film The Alamo (1960). Alamo Village is a movie set and tourist attraction north of Brackettville, Texas, United States.It was the first movie location built in Texas, originally constructed for and best known as the setting for The Alamo (1960), directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and Frankie Avalon.
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Alamo Square from the air. A row of Victorian houses facing the park on Steiner Street, known as the "Painted Ladies", are often shown in the foreground of panoramic pictures of the city's downtown area. A number of movies, television shows and commercials have been filmed in or around Alamo Square.
Alamo has 50 locations across the United States, including 15 franchised locations, making it the seventh-largest movie-theater chain in North America, according to information from Sony Pictures ...
Alamo will be housed under a new corporate division called Sony Pictures Experiences, and the chain will continue to operate all 35 of its locations across 25 metro areas in the U.S., the ...
"Painted Ladies" near Alamo Square, San Francisco, California. In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details.