Category: History
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Happy Fat Tuesday Open Comments
1900 Mobile Alabama Poster Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday“, referring to it being the last day of consuming rich, fatty foods, most notably red meat, in…
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Movie House Madness Weekend Open Comments
What you did not know about movie theatres and probably don’t care to know. A little known fact about movie theaters is their summer time popularity sky rocketed after Willis Carrier, in 1925, installed his air conditioner at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. 1925: The Rivoli Theater in New York City’s Time Square…
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Nothing Says Texas Like Texas Weekend Open Comments
This building housed the first H-E-B (originally named the C.C. Butt Grocery Store) in Kerrville. Florence Butt opened the store in 1905 on the lower floor. Her family lived on the upper floor. H-E-B founder, Florence Butt, behind the counter of her first store in Kerrville in the early 1900s. The original name of store…