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unusual facts about promenade



Anna Romantowska

In 1997 during the "II Festiwalu Gwiazd" (Second Festival of Stars) in Międzyzdroje she left a hand mark in a slab of concrete at the "Promenada Gwiazd w Międzyzdrojach" (Promenade of Stars).

Avenue des Français

After the war, Solidere, the company in charge of planning and redeveloping Beirut Central District, engaged Gustafson Porter to create The Shoreline Walk, a pedestrian promenade that traced the line of the original coastline that was lost during the war.

Badalona

The most important celebration takes place the day before Saint Anastasi Day when, at night, people gather at the maritime promenade to participate in the popular Cremada del Dimoni (Devil-Burning)--similar to the famous Valencian Falles.

Baku Boulevard

In 2010, a multi-story shopping mall Park Bulvar, Baku Business Centre and 5D cinema were opened in this promenade as part of Government's regeneration policy to boost shopping and leisure in Baku.

Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño

The bank's main office was located on Calle Marina and Paseo Arias (Arias Promenade), facing Plaza Degetau.

Bennett Scott

He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey including Tom Costello’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty by Florrie Forde and "Take me in a Taxi, Joe".

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

The southern half of the Promenade was opened to the public on October 7, 1950, and the northern half on December 7, 1951 (the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor).

Cadillac Brougham

Originally used for a single horse drawn enclosed carriage for 2-4 people, the “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").

Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham

Originally an enclosed carriage, drawn by a single horse, for 2–4 persons, “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice, in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").

Cours-la-Reine

The Cours-la-Reine, also spelled Cours la Reine (without hyphens), is a public park and garden promenade located along the River Seine, between the Place de la Concorde and the Place du Canada, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

David A. Wallace

By 1980, with the opening of developer and urban visionary James Rouse's "festival marketplaces" of "Harborplace" by his Rouse Company along the now decade-old waterfront promenade, which was modeled after Boston's restoration/renovation project at the old 18th Century "Faneuil Hall" and "Quincy Market", became the urban success story of the 1980s and 90's in America, hailed in magazines, tourist brochures and travel conventions everywhere.

Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station

It is the third deepest MRT station (after Bras Basah then Promenade) in Singapore, with the deepest point at 28 metres below ground level.

Edinburgh Waterfront

Tourism remains an important sector in the local economy with the Royal Yacht Britannia attracting 500,000 visitors each year and a new waterside promenade already started which will link the river Almond at Cramond to the Esk at Joppa allowing access to 18 kilometres of walkway/cycleway.

Eric J. Hill

He has participated in projects such as the promenade on the Detroit International Riverfront, the Detroit Opera House restoration, and the Cadillac Place redevelopment.

Escalera de los Moros

The Escalera de los Moros (Moors lader) is a medieval-Islamic public building works aimed at a Dam or wetland located on the promenade of the Oron river outside the village of Librilla, Murcia, Spain.

Esther Cardoso

To commemorate Gaia's opening, on the eve of the millennium, she co-directed A Millennium Night's Dream, a fourteen hour spectacle involving 84 actors, inspired by the mythical conflict between Dionysus (god of pleasure) and Pentheus (lord of reason) involving promenade performances, fire-eating, acrobatics, dance, poetry, and Cuban story-telling.

Ferdinand von Rosenzweig

During his service to the Emperor of Mexico, he traced and built the famous Mexico City avenue Paseo de la Emperatriz ("Promenade of the Empress") - now renamed the Paseo de la Reforma.

Francisco de Moura, 3rd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo

The French even spoke of "une promenade militaire." Moura was later appointed as Caballerizo mayor+ to the King and died in Madrid in December of 1675.

Frank Yablans

In 2003, Yablans founded Promenade Pictures, a production company committed to the production of "family-friendly" entertainment, with their most ambitious project the "Epic Stories of the Bible" series of CGI-animated features, inaugurated with The Ten Commandments and Noah's Ark: The New Beginning.

General Motors Concerts

With a title change to The General Motors Promenade Concerts, the program moved April 1937 to the Blue Network for a series of hour-long thematic shows with male/female leads, including one show of Victor Herbert music with Jan Peerce and Rose Bampton.

Jabel Mukaber

A Tolerance Monument sculpted by Czesław Dźwigaj in collaboration with Michal Kubiak is situated on a hill marking the divide between Jewish East Talpiot and Arab Jabel Mukaber, standing opposite the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem in a park near Goldman Promenade.

Jack Laskey

In 2007 Laskey worked with Punchdrunk theatre company, creating the role of Roderick Usher in their site specific, promenade production The Masque of the Red Death - an adaptation of various Edgar Allan Poe short stories at London's Battersea Arts Centre.

Jaime Nebot

Nebot built a shopping promenade along the west bank of the Guayas River, in the center of Guayaquil.

Joseph Gungl

In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd Infantry Regiment at Brno, but in 1864 he moved to Munich, and in 1876 at Frankfurt, after having conducted with great success a series of promenade concerts at the Covent Garden in London in 1873.

La Alameda, Seville

The promenade was also restored with the planting of many white poplars and European hackberry trees.

Llafranc

The Hotel Llafranc dominates the main sea promenade and was popular with artists such as Salvador Dalí and Ernest Hemingway.

Minami-Temma Park

The cherry blossom promenade is also a cycle path, which continues to northern Osaka (Suita City).

Montpellier, Cheltenham

Montpellier is a district of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (England), at the end of the Promenade south of the town centre.

OC Transpo Route 97

In addition it serves smaller shopping centres such as South Keys Shopping Centre on Bank Street and Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre located on Carling Avenue as well as the Sparks Street Mall, World Exchange Plaza, L'Esplanade Laurier and the Bank Street Promenade all located downtown.

Omerta – City of Gangsters

Real vintage buildings and places are present like the Traymore Hotel, the Absecon Lighthouse, the Atlantic City Jail-house or the board-walk “Eastern Promenade” as well as streets like Illinois Avenue or the North Carolina Avenue which ends at the beach.

Philippa Coulthard

Coulthard studied at Hillbrook Anglican School in Brisbane, and started performing on a stage in 1996, when she was four, taking dance classes at Promenade Dance School.

Prenzlauer Allee

It starts at Prenzlauer Tor, formerly the site of a historic city gate on the road to Prenzlau, leading uphill northwards to the border with the Pankow district, where it continues as Prenzlauer Promenade.

Promenade Concert

This series featured the Promenade Concert series in Toronto, recorded at Varsity Arena.

Rick J. Caruso

In 1987, Caruso founded Caruso Affiliated, a real estate development firm which develops, owns and manages properties such as The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles, the Americana at Brand in Glendale, The Commons at Calabasas, The Promenade at Westlake, and the Marina Waterside.

Rod Clements

Following Alan Hull's death in 1995 Rod became the band's main songwriter who, in partnership with producer and co-writer Nigel Stonier, provided the bulk of material for Lindisfarne's two last albums, Here Comes The Neighbourhood (1998) and Promenade (2002).

Second, Minute or Hour

The music video shows the singer running along the raised section of promenade on Brighton Beach.

Slave Island railway station

The Coastal Line was originally designed across the Galle Face Green, but due to requests by the public to avoid the promenade, an alternate route was made through Slave Island.

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

In 1948 there were seven hospitals in Southport: Southport General Infirmary, the Promenade Hospital, Greaves Hall Hospital, Fleetwood Road Hospital, New Hall Hospital and, for maternity services, St Katherine’s and the Christiana Hartley unit.

SS Exochorda

Despite being pictured in promenade's forward lounge in many "4 Aces" print advertisements, sculptress Mitzi Solomon had created only two unique marble carvings that were used on other "4 Aces" vessels.

Strandboulevarden

Originally the central reservation contained three rows of London planetrees flanking a promenade for pedestrians.

The Cliffs Hotel

The Cliffs Hotel is in the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire, It is located on the Queen's Promenade in the North Shore area of the town.

The Spooklight

The Spooklight, also called the Hornet Spooklight, Hollis Light and Joplin Spook Light, is a mysterious visual phenomenon allegedly experienced by witnesses in a small area known locally as the "Devil's Promenade" on the border between southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma west of the small town of Hornet, Missouri.

Theo Adams

On 14 October 2010, Louis Vuitton presented a new promenade performance production by Theo Adams Company in Tokyo, Japan.

Tiger Onitsuka

Followed by a concert at a national treasure and a World Heritage Site Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, on 7 October 2007, Onitsuka performed at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade.

Wynndel Property Management

The Severn Quay development includes the transformation of the town's neglected riverbank by creating landscaped gardens, a promenade and lookout deck over the River Wye.


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