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unusual facts about Fran's Restaurant


Fran's Restaurant

Following the opening of the Victoria and Shuter location, Fran's expanded to Barrie, Ontario, opening a restaurant on Bayfield Street in December 2006.


Anders Hillborg

An example of his work in the popular realm is his collaboration with Eva Dahlgren, which resulted in the album Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda (1995).

Birgitta Andersson

Later on, she also portrayed two other characters on kid shows; Hedvig in Från A till Ö - En Resa Orden runt (From A to Ö - A Trip Around the Words) from 1974 and the small troll Doris in Trolltider (Trolltimes) from 1979.

Bob Bolen

He married his wife, the former Fran Ciborowski, in 1952 and the couple soon moved to Fort Worth, Texas.

Bryan Batt

His performance in the musical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever earned him one of New York City's more unusual honors, a caricature at Sardi's.

Calum Best

In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

Chloe Coscarelli

Coscarelli was featured in the Cooking Channel television documentary "The Veg Edge" and has appeared on NBC's The Today Show, CBS's The Doctors, VH1, CNN, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell Show and the Fran Drescher Show.

Florence Jean Castleberry

She also had three younger brothers - Jimmie Joe (Burton Gilliam), Lonnie (G.W. Bailey), Rhett (Robert Ayers), and a younger sister named Fran (Lucy Lee Flippin).

Fool Around With

The series airs on Channel 4, and every episode has a unique name, such as "Fool Around With the Cheeky Girls", "Fool Around With Fran", "Fool Around With Nadia", "Fool Around with John Nettles", "Fool Around With Humple Dennis", etc.

Fran

Hurricane Fran, a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season

Dennis Franchione, former college football coach known as "Coach Fran"

Fran Cosgrave

Fran Cosgrave (born 30 December 1977) is an Irish nightclub owner, famous for appearing on reality television programmes and being the former Westlife bodyguard.

Fran Florez

The incumbent, Democrat Nicole Parra, had been feuding with her son, Dean Florez, for years and consequently endorsed Fran Florez' Republican opponent, former Assistant CHP Chief Danny Gilmore.

Fran Ganguzza

The collaboration between Jon Doscher, Fran Ganguzza and Jim Sheridan resulted in an agreement to produce the full-length feature film: Old Stoneface, which depicts the illustrious and controversial career of Lester Piggott, the greatest flat Jockey in England’s history and perhaps the best jockey of all time.

Fran Jeffries

In 1966, Fran Jeffries recorded an album for Monument Records, This Is Fran Jeffries; a collection of standards and popular songs, produced by Fred Foster with arrangements by Dick Grove and Bill Justis, including a rendition of Lennon–McCartney's "Yesterday".

Fran Krsto Frankopan

The remains of Fran Krsto Frankopan and Petar Zrinski were buried in the Cathedral of Zagreb in 1919.

Francesc Piera Martínez

Francesc 'Fran' Piera Martínez (born 19 December 1987 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Doxa Katokopias F.C. in the Cypriot First Division, as a midfielder.

Garfield statues

The town of Upland is erecting "Ice Cream Lover Garfield", to be placed near Ivanhoe's Restaurant, 979 S Main Street.

If My Friends Could See Me Now

The Gwen Verdon recording of "If My Friends Could See Me Now" was utilized as the theme song for the pilot episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Nanny although an original song entitled "The Nanny Named Fran" served as the theme song for the series' subsequent episodes: airings of The Nannys pilot episode in syndication utilize "The Nanny Named Fran" as that episode's theme song rather than "If My Friends Could See Me Now".

Jaakko Paavolainen

His boyhood memories från Carelia he pictures in Lapsuus Kanneljärvellä (1982) and the life of his cousin Olavi Paavolainen in a 1992 published volume.

Johnny Bos

Bos was a frequent customer at Jack Dempsey's restaurant and surrounded himself with boxers.

JV's Restaurant

Many musicians, famous and not-yet-famous, have appeared over the years, including members of Patsy Cline's band, the Country Gentlemen, the Seldom Scene, Tony Rice, Roy Clark, Catfish Hodge, Billy Hancock, and various members of such bands as Molly Hatchet, Eric Clapton, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rod Stewart, and Willie Nelson's Ungrateful Bastards.

KFFN

He went on to produce other classic radio shows including ‘Blind Date’ with Arlene Francis, ‘Kukla, Fran, and Ollie” with Fran Allison, and The Red Skelton Show.

Light of Day

# "Twist it Off" (Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson, Fran Christina, Preston Hubbard)– The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Love Will Come Through

The alternate version, referred to as the "Haar Schnitt" video, was directed by Anton Corbijn, and features footage of Fran Healy and other members of the band during their home life.

Lundy's Restaurant

At the turn of the 20th century, Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart.

Meeru Dhalwala

Meeru Dhalwala is an author, chef and co-owner, with her husband Vikram Vij, of the Indian restaurants Vij's and Rangoli in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Michael Jordan's Restaurant

Guests at the grand opening included Illinois governor Jim Edgar, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, actor Mickey Rooney, and comedian Jackie Mason.

Michael Tearson

” Tearson mentions all that contributed to the CD, which are Tom Hampton, Andy Kravitz, Fran Smith Jr. and Rob Hyman (of The Hooters), Ted Estersohn, Jay Davidson, Laine Walker Hughes and Lauren Hart.

Mikael Niemi

Populärmusik från Vittula (2000) (trans. into English by Laurie Thompson under the titles Popular Music and Popular music from Vittula ISBN 978-0-00-714550-8)

Moral waiver

The Group W bench, a key element of Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk song and extended monologue "Alice's Restaurant", is a reference to the moral waiver provision -- the W stands for "waiver"; he described that key element of the work as a waiting area where he mingled with other potential inductees awaiting consideration under moral waiver.

More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album

The Dūrocs (led by fellow San Fran hippie leftover Ron Nagle) and the Ophelias mistakenly believe that weird songs call for wacky performances, resulting in a sort of contrived lunacy that's at odds with Spence's unself-conscious outpourings.

Nadine Blacklock

The Blacklock Nature Sanctuary was founded in 1994 by Nadine Blacklock, along with her husband Craig Blacklock, as well as Les and Fran Blacklock.

Oldest McDonald's restaurant

The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is a drive-up hamburger stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Avenue in Downey, California.

Olof Aschberg

In 1946 he started publishing his memoirs in three volumes (En vandrande jude från Glasbruksgatan, Återkomsten, and Gästboken) and he invited Margarete Buber-Neumann to write there Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler.

Onward Victoria

Its cast of characters includes Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, restaurateur Charlie Delmonico, and Henry Ward Beecher, with whom Woodhull is linked in a fictional romance that leads to the minister being tried for alienation of affections.

Paul Cummins

Throughout the history of Irish basketball thus far, Cummins was one a very small number of Irish-born male players to ever earn a basketball scholarship to an American NCAA Division I college (Lafayette College) under head Coach Fran O'Hanlon.

Peter Coonan

He was nominated as Best Supporting Actor TV for his role as Fran at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards.

Reuben's Restaurant

The restaurant's menu included sandwiches named for celebrities; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra both had sandwiches named for them.

Arnold Reuben retired to Palm Beach, where he died on December 31, 1970 at the age of 87.

Riccardo Campogiani

Anton Abele created a Swedish Facebook group called "Bevara oss från gatuvåldet” (Save us from street violence).

Sekadar Di Pinggiran

Malaysian readers voted "Sekadar Di Pinggiran" as 'Song of the Year' and another, "Ku Ke Udara Lagi", as "Third Best Song of the Year' in a poll organised by 'The New Straits Times' daily. Her album "Sekadar Di Pinggiran" is voted 'Album of the Year' while Fran wins the award for 'Best Female Artiste of the Year'.

The Bucks

James McNally (Storm, Pogues, Afro-Celt Sound System) was also a member, as were several members of Kavana's primary group, The Alias Band (Miriam Kavana, Fran Byrne).

The Dave Thomas Comedy Show

Anson Downes, Teresa Ganzel, Don Lake, Julie Fulton and David Wiley made up the supporting cast of various characters in the sketches, while veteran character actress Fran Ryan had a recurring role as a wise-cracking waitress also named Fran Ryan.

Thornton's Restaurant

Asked about the incident by broadcaster Joe Duffy on his RTÉ Radio 1 Liveline programme, Thornton stressed that he had not so much been infuriated by the request of chips (he supposedly provides them for younger customers on a regular basis) but that he had been aggravated by the attitude of this particular customer.

Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa

Swedish singer Östen Warnerbring has made a Swedish version called "15 minuter från Eslöv" ("15 minutes from Eslöv").

Weidmann's Restaurant

In 1935 the celebration for Fred and Al Key's record-breaking endurance flight, which lasted 653 hours and 34 minutes and wasn't broken until 1973 by astronauts, was held at Weidmann's.

Wes King

King and his wife, Fran (the sister of former U.S. Congresswoman Katherine Harris), have three children.


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