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The original plat of Galveston, drawn in the late 1830s, includes Avenue B. The name 'strand' for Ave. B was coined by a German immigrant named Michael William Shaw who opened a jewelry store on the corner of 23rd and Ave. B. Shaw, not liking the name "Ave. B", changed the name of the street on his stationery to "Strand", thinking that the name (named after a street in London) would have ...
Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters wishes The Strand Theatre of Shreveport a happy 100th birthday!. While researching at the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS a while back, we ...
Silver Strand, or simply The Strand, is a low, narrow, sandy isthmus or a human-constructed [1] tombolo 7 miles (11 km) long in San Diego County, California, partially within Silver Strand State Beach. [2]
The Strand was popular for a time as a vaudevillian theatre. In 1929, the theatre changed management and opened a year later as the Paramount Theatre. To capitalize on the emerging "talking pictures" market, the nearly 2,100-seat auditorium was converted into a movie cinema, making it one of eight in downtown Providence. Four years later, the ...
After hushed earlier records, Heal was where Strand of Oaks cohered, Showalter dealing with a host of traumatic events via a synth-tinged heartland rock sound that was just starting to come back ...
Exeter House, as Exeter 'Change, viewed from the east, in an engraving, 1829. The first, also called Exeter House or Burghley House, was on the north side of The Strand; it was built in the 16th century by William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) as an expansion of an existing house; [a] Cecil moved his London residence there in 1560, and Queen Elizabeth I of England supped with him there, in July ...
The Strand Hotel is a historic apartment hotel at 6315-6323 S. Cottage Grove Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Opened in 1915, the hotel offered both traditional guest rooms and long-term residences for customers who sought luxury amenities in apartment-style housing.
The straphanger who was burned to death on a Brooklyn F train in a horrific attack has been identified as a 57-year-old New Jersey woman, police announced Tuesday.