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4 unusual facts about Rialto


First Christian Church of Rialto

First Christian Church of Rialto is a historic church located at 201 N. Riverside Avenue in Rialto, California.

Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari

In 1523 he established the Libreria della Fenice (Bookshop of the Phoenix), a printing press and bookstore, with his father in the Rialto district of Venice, at the time a major European center of the new art of printing.

John Longville

He succeeded Joe Baca, who was elected to the State Senate, and was succeeded by Baca's son, Joe Baca, Jr. Longville previously served as mayor of Rialto from 1987 until 1998, and for seven years prior to that as a member of the Rialto city council.

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Dionne Warwick performed here her first Live TV Concert in 1983 for America.


Christopher Morley

Seacoast of Bohemia ("history of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell)

Kelham Island Quarter

The apartments of the development enjoy riverside views and occupy buildings named Clifton, Millau, and Rialto after the famous bridges.

Louis Eliot

Louis Robert Eliot (born Plymouth, England is an English singer, songwriter and former guitarist of the now defunct bands Kinky Machine and Rialto.

Moodabe family

When Thomas O'Brien and his beloved Civic Theatre went bankrupt in 1932, the Moodabe brothers took over O'Brien's other Auckland theatres, including the Princess (later the Plaza), the Rialto in Newmarket, and the Tivoli in Karangahape Road.

Moray Place, Dunedin

The southwestern quadrant includes the former Dunedin Public Library building (the Carnegie Centre), the Fortune Theatre, and one of the city's main cinemas, the Rialto.

Rialto Pictures

Rialto also handles distribution for most of the back catalog of French production company StudioCanal, particularly titles from the former Embassy Pictures and Carolco Pictures libraries.

2007 marked Rialto’s tenth anniversary, a milestone that was celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Terry Ramsaye

Subsequently he was associated with Samuel Roxy Rothafel in the management of Broadway's Rialto and Rivoli theaters.


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