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2 unusual facts about plaza


Henry Linde

He came to Plaza, North Dakota in July 1906 and engaged in the practice of law.

Plaza, Venezuela

On February 27, 1989, a morning protest in this city over the recent nationwide hike in bus fares, spread to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which resulted in several days of rioting known today as the Caracazo.


1939 Chillán earthquake

Various emblematic buildings of the city were destroyed, like the central market, Correos de Chile, but the most emblematic was the plaza of independence, which was seriously damaged.

Babushka Lady

In the 1992 film Ruby, the character of Candy Cane, portrayed by Sherilyn Fenn, is shown in Dealey Plaza with a camera and not wearing a babushka scarf.

Bras Basah MRT Station

It is also linked to the Singapore Management University and Plaza by the Park tower at concourse level, below Bras Basah Road.

California State Route 261

The freeway continues next to The Market Place, a mall in Irvine, before going through a toll plaza after the Irvine Boulevard interchange.

Camden Children's Garden

The facility includes indoor attractions such as the Philadelphia Eagles Four Seasons Butterfly House, Plaza de Aibonito, a Puerto Rican tropical greenhouse exhibit, and Benjamin Franklin’s Secret Garden and Workshop.

Casa de la Panadería

Carlos Franco won with a design based on mythological figures such as Cybele, Proserpine, Bacchus, and Cupid, as well as others invented by the artist, interwoven into the history of Madrid and the Plaza Mayor.

CentralPlaza Grand Rama IX

Central Plaza Grand Rama 9 is a shopping mall on Rama 9 Road in Huai Khwang, Bangkok.

Chase Manhattan

Chase Manhattan Bank Building, a 1927 building located at Queens Plaza in Long Island City, Queens, New York City

Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway

Highlights include an 18-space parking area, four pedestrian bridges that cross Mouse Creek, five underpasses (Raider Drive, Keith Street, 25th Street, 20th Street, and 17th Street), and a connection to the Prayer Walk Plaza at the Church of God International Offices.

Commerce Square

To break the deadlock, Philadelphia Plaza Associates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Concourse Plaza Hotel

Many star players from the home teams – including Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Frank Gifford of the Giants – stayed at the Concourse Plaza, and visiting players would also stay at the hotel.

Costantino Corti

Corti's monument to Cardinal Borromeo was commissioned in 1861 for the plaza of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

Daniel Arsham

A second project for a marker to commemorate the site of the former Orange Bowl reimagines the letters from the former Orange Bowl sign as 10 foot concrete letters dispersed in various positions through the east plaza of the new ballpark.

Dorado, Puerto Rico

The town's patron saint is Anthony of Padua, and patron saint celebrations are held at the plaza every year on June 13.

Dyson's Bus Services

520 GreensboroughDoreen via Greensborough Plaza, Greensborough station & Yarrambat (Daily)

Filipino Plaza

Highly visible in the front of the park are wooden arch, a very distinctive-colorful Sarimanok logo, and 2 walls made up of 2,000 red bricks donated by Filipino-Canadian representing the pioneers of the plaza.

Francisco Narváez

Francisco José Narváez (4 October 1905, Porlamar, - 13 July 1982, Caracas) was a Venezuelan sculptor who is perhaps best-known for "Las Toninas", a sculptural group that decorates the fountain of the Plaza O'Leary in Caracas.

Fremont Street

1992's Cool World showed all the animation coming out of the Plaza hotel and going down Fremont Street.

Fundidora park

Parque Plaza Sesamo is a thematic park devoted to Sesame Street franchise.

Genova Piazza Principe railway station

The station derives its name from the adjacent Piazza del Principe (In Italian literally "plaza of the prince"), located next to the Palazzo del Principe (literally "palace of the prince") adjacent to the street called Via Andrea Doria in the Fassolo neighbourhood.

Imbi Monorail station

The Imbi station is also within a close range of several more shopping centres near Bukit Bintang (Star Hill), including the Low Yat Plaza, Imbi Plaza, Sungei Wang Plaza and BB Plaza.

Isavella Dara

During the 2004 Summer Olympics, the model visited the Water Plaza fun park, an Olympic venue, which housed the sculpture "The Olive: The Tree of Athens", on which she and many other celebrities signed their names.

J. Richardson Dilworth

Dilworth is best known for being the leading manager of Room 5600, known now as Rockefeller Family & Associates, the family office of the Rockefeller family, situated on the 54-56th floors of the GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in Rockefeller Center.

Johnny Ginger

By the early 1960s Johnny adapted a new character inspired by the Jerry Lewis film The Bellboy, that of the head bellboy at the Rocky Plaza Hotel, run by Rocky Granet (the voice of Rube Weiss), and the show became The Johnny Ginger Show.

Kennedy Plaza

Surrounding the Plaza are Burnside Park, the Bank of America skating center, and Haven Brothers Diner which has been rolled into the Plaza nightly since 1893.

Lawrence Plaza

It is also the name of a small shopping plaza in Santa Clara, California serving the Korean community with a grocery store, bakery, coffee shop, and a food court; this article describes the shopping centre in Toronto.

Léonie Duquet

This was shortly after Astiz had led a police action at the Holy Cross Church in Buenos Aires against the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where he had arranged the arrest of Azucena Villaflor and two other of the 13 founders of the group, together with a total of ten associates.

Lindale Mall

Lindale Plaza was built by Bernard Greenbaum and Associates, who also built Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines.

Manly Beach

The Corso, a pedestrian plaza and one of Manly's main streets for shopping and dining, runs from the ferry wharf and harbour beach, across the peninsula to Manly Beach, where it marks the boundary between North Steyne and South Steyne.

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.

Pantip Plaza

Pantip Plaza is featured in a hit song by Loso, "Pantip", which has a hook chorus, "Ja mai pai Pantip" ("จะไม่ไปพันธุ์ทิพย์" - "(I) will not go to Pantip") and is about a man dating a woman and taking her shopping at World Trade Center, MBK Center and Siam Square, but he refuses to take her to Pantip Plaza because of his ex-girlfriend works there.

Parkway Properties

Some notable buildings in Parkway's portfolio include: Bank of America Center (Orlando), Frost Bank Tower, Hearst Tower (Charlotte), Liberty Place, Morgan Keegan Tower, NASCAR Plaza, One American Center, One Congress Plaza, Phoenix Tower, San Felipe Plaza, Schlumberger, U.S. Airways Building, Wells Fargo Center (Jacksonville) and 3344 Peachtree.

Penn Plaza East

The Penn Plaza East complex takes its name for its location near Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey.

Plaza de la Escandalera

The statue "Maternity" (La Maternida) by Colombian-artist Fernando Botero is located in the plaza.

Plaza Frontenac

Chingy's song "Right Thurr" contains the phrase, "we be shoppin at Frontenac," which refers to Plaza Frontenac.

Plaza Hollywood

Hollywood Hong Kong, a 2001 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan, set in Tai Hom Village, with references to Plaza Hollywood.

Plaza Nueva

The Plaza Nueva or Plaza Barria (New Square) of Bilbao is a monumental square of Neoclassical style built in 1821.

Plaza Singapura

Plaza Singapura was officially opened by then Minister for Finance, the late Mr Hon Sui Sen, on 16 August 1975.

Roy Rogers Restaurants

An exception is the Allentown service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, which serves its customers in the typical fast-food fashion since it reopened in May 2008 (the entire service plaza had been rebuilt).

Santa Cruz Bridge

The steel truss bridge was the fourth to span the river connecting the district of Santa Cruz from Plaza Goiti to Arroceros Street in the old city center of Manila.

Sattler's

Sattler's other Buffalo-area locations included stores in the Thruway Plaza (later Thruway Mall) in Cheektowaga, New York (1957), Boulevard Mall in Amherst, New York (1962), Seneca Mall in West Seneca, New York (1969), and Main Place Mall in downtown Buffalo (1973).

Seagram Building

The Seagram Building's plaza was also the site of a landmark planning study by William H. Whyte, the American sociologist.

Sin Yaw Mg Mg

He lived at No. 6-A, Myaynigone Plaza, Bargayar Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar, near the Dagon Center.

Subic–Tipo Expressway

It then arrives at Hermosa, Bataan where there is a toll plaza and the road forks into two, the left towards Jose Abad Santos Avenue, the right the toll plaza of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway.

Tlaxcoaque

Historically this plaza and the church that sits on it have marked the southern edge of Mexico City, and today it is on the border of the historic center and Colonia Obrera.

Tropical Tribute to the Beatles

In 1996 a tour was made through Spain (Plaza de Toros (Valencia), Madrid, La Coruña's Coliseum, Barcelona).

Vancouver Art Gallery

The Gallery connects to the rest of the complex via an underground passage below Robson Street to an outdoor plaza, restaurants, the University of British Columbia's downtown satellite campus, government offices, and the new Law Courts at the southern end.


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