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- Largest solar farm in each state, territory, and province
- Cities pronounced the same, but spelled differently
- Working list – Favorite fictional spies of film and TV
- Ugly two-digit Interstate Highway segments and thoughts on how to improve them
- The global network of subsea digital communication cables and the coastal hub cities that stand to benefit from them
- Working list – Favorite spy sagas based on true events
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- Geography of underground co-location data centers
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Category Archives: theaters
Creating LA’s starlit aura – “The Mirage Factory”
What an outstanding book! Perhaps, my favorite the best city biography ever read. Author Gary Krist simply nails it with The Mirage Factory. It’s entertaining, enthralling, infuriating, and thoroughly engaging to read. You will definitely learn some amazing and eye-opening … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, book reviews, books, branding, business, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, demographics, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, film, fun, geography, Geology, government, highways, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, industry, infrastructure, injustice, land use, marketing, movies, music, nature, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, racism, reading, Religion, rivers/watersheds, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, technology, theaters, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, Women, writing
Tagged book reviews, books, California, Gary Krist, history, LA, Los Angeles, silent films, The Mirage Factory, urban biographies, water
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Memphis – “The Cradle of American Music”
Yes, Nashville may bill itself as “Music City” and Austin claims to be America’s “Live Music Capital,” but if there is one city in the United States that has truly given birth to the greatest variety of music genre … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, architecture, art, aviation, branding, business, cities, civics, Civil Rights, Communications, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, globalization, historic preservation, history, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, music, music reviews, placemaking, planning, Radio, rivers/watersheds, social equity, songs, Statistics, theaters, third places, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning, writing
Tagged American Music, Beale Street, blues, Bluff City, country, cradle, gospel, Hi Records, jazz, lyrics, Memphis, Memphis Music Hub, music, playlists, Radio, Rock 'n' Roll, rockabilly, songs, soul, Stax Records, Sun Studios, Tennessee, writing
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Black-owned or operated hotels of the Green Book era
One of the most disturbing consequences of America’s Jim Crow segregation era is the limited amount of archival documentation that can be found about Black-owned and operated businesses and organizations from the time period. Even a search of sites such as … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, business, cities, civics, Civil Rights, commerce, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, gentrification, geography, Highway displacement, historic preservation, history, Housing, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, land use, music, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, politics, racism, revitalization, Small business, social equity, theaters, third places, tourism, Travel, urban planning
Tagged African-American, bigotry, Green Book, history, hotels, intolerance, Jim Crow, lodging, motels, motor inns, racism, rooming houses, segregation, tourism, tourist homes, travel
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“Rut-Roh” – Favorite animated dogs of TV and movies
A little fun heading into the weekend with a listing of favorite animated dogs from television and movies. The top 5 are listed in bold, while the remaining ones on my list are listed ignored by bullet points. If there … Continue reading
A quartet of historic Upper Peninsula theatres
Hope you enjoy these theatre photos as much as I have photographing these entertainment venues this past week.
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, Cities, culture, downtown, entertainment, film, historic preservation, history, land use, movies, pictures, placemaking, theaters, third places, tourism, Travel
Tagged Upper Peninsula
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Roadside Americana: Atomic age stops, sights, and oddities
This blogpost is a little adventure through the sights and sounds of America’s roadside culture to depict how the Atomic Age has impacted it since 1945. A whole variety of businesses have adopted the term “atomic” or some variation thereof … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, archaeology, architecture, art, atomic age, branding, brewpubs, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Communications, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, Maps, marketing, military, place names, placemaking, Science, Science fiction, signs, technology, theaters, third places, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged advertising, atomic, atomic age, Atomic City, branding, infrastructure, marketing, military, motels, neon, restaurants, roadside Americana, services, shops, signs, trademark, weapons
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American “Hydrograds” – Cities built for hydroelectric projects
Two recent posts I’ve written on the Atomgrads (nuclear cities) of the former Soviet Union that were developed to both construct and support both nuclear weapons and energy plants led me to explore similar government built community for hydroelectric … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, cities, downtown, economic development, environment, geography, Geology, Health care, Housing, infrastructure, land use, Maps, nature, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, rivers/watersheds, spatial design, theaters, third places, topography, toponymy, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Atomgrads, dams, hydroelectric power, hydroelectric projects, Hydrograds, town planning, urban design
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Favorite movie roles by actors(resses) past and present
Just a little fun on a rainy day. Below is a lengthy listing of my favorite film for each actor (male and female) past and present. Those not included have either not been in a film Iv’ve seen, were an … Continue reading
Posted in art, Communications, culture, entertainment, film, fun, history, movies, theaters
Tagged acting, actors, actresses, film, movies
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Temples of Jazz – The Theatres
This is the second blogpost of our series on the Temples of Jazz. The initial post was dedicated to the ballrooms and dance halls. This one will cover those theatres(ers) where jazz musicians performed during the Jazz Age, while … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, Communications, culture, diversity, economic development, entertainment, geography, historic preservation, history, inclusiveness, music, placemaking, Radio, songs, theaters, tourism, Travel
Tagged Chitlin' Circuit, jazz, music, TOBA
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