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The King Drive-In began showing films in 1949 when it was originally owned by namesake A.L. King. [1] King's son, Morgan, took over operations in 1974. [2] Traditionally, the theater screened films throughout the summer at this time when local children and teenagers were out of school.
The theater project was backed by entertainers Bob Hope and Art Linkletter, along with businessmen Cy Warner and Randolph Hale. [2] The 2,865-seat facility opened July 6, 1964 with The Sound of Music. [1] The first year saw the theater mount 18 musicals, three comedies, a drama, as well as concerts with a combined audience of over 600,000.
The Old South Restaurant was a historic diner and local restaurant landmark at 1330 East Main Street in Russellville, Arkansas.It was a modular single-story structure, with streamlined Art Moderne styling consisting of exterior porcelain-coated aluminum paneling, bands of fixed windows, and a protruding aluminum entrance, above which a neon-lighted sign rose.
John William Counsell OBE [1] (24 April 1905 – 23 February 1987) [2] [3] was an English actor, director and theatre manager, who (with his wife Mary Kerridge) ran the Theatre Royal, Windsor and its in-house repertory company from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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A fire closed the restaurant for three months in 1991. [5] The following year, the restaurant's extensive wine collection was severely damaged in Hurricane Andrew; this led to an extended legal battle between the restaurant and its insurers over the value of the collection, eventually settled in 1997 by a $2.75 million payment. [6]
The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, opened in 1925 as a Vaudeville venue and was nicknamed "The greatest theatre of the South" and the "Million Dollar Theatre" by its builders, Julian and Abraham Saenger of Shreveport, owners of the Saenger Amusements Company, which operated theaters throughout the American South and in Central America.
The Rock Valley College Studio Theatre was an indoor community theater located on the Rock Valley College campus in Rockford, Illinois; its operational status has been put on hold indefinitely, [1] a casualty of the Illinois Budget crisis (see: Bruce Rauner#Governor of Illinois).