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William Richard " Billy " Wilkerson (September 29, 1890 – September 2, 1962) was the founder of The Hollywood Reporter, [1] a real estate developer in Las Vegas and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's.
The Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum (also known as BRHS&M) is a non-profit organization and public museum dedicated to preserve and collect history and artifacts of Boca Raton, Florida, United States, for educational and advocacy purposes. [1] The society is known for their goal of historic designation and restoring historical structures important to the history of Boca Raton. The ...
The Hollywood Reporter was founded in 1930 by William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. [1] The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Palm Beach County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be ...
One of the first men to see this possibility was Billy Wilkerson, the founder of the Hollywood Reporter and, as Schumacher notes, a compulsive gambler who decided that keeping his losses in-house ...
If it’s been a minute since you’ve visited Boca Raton, let us reintroduce you to your next staycation obsession. Our northern neighbor, located an hour from Miami, is a historic resort town ...
The price beats the former Boca Raton record sale of a $29 million home in the Sanctuary that was allegedly purchased by legendary rocker Billy Joel.
Flamingo founder Billy Wilkerson named the Flamingo, long before Benjamin Siegel got involved. Urban legend has it wrong that Siegel named the Flamingo Las Vegas resort after Hill, who liked to gamble and whose nickname was supposedly "Flamingo", a moniker that Siegel was said to have given her, referring to her long, thin legs, [7] but others ...