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Richmond, BC Canada
Steveston Harbour - the largest commercial fishing harbour in Canada under the DFO - SCH Harbour Authority Program.
Steveston Harbour is located on the south arm of the Fraser River at the south end of Richmond, BC and is composed of two main sites: Paramount and Gulf.
The Paramount site extends from the south foot of No. 2 Road to the Britannia Shipyard National Historic Site and is the main industrial area of the harbour, offering a plethora of on site services through Harbour Authority staff and our upland tenants, a list of which can be found here.
The Gulf site is located between No. 1 Road and Garry Point Park and consists of a combination of working docks, shops and restaurants, and gear storage facilities.
Coach in the Midland Fox Fleet is seen at Battersea Coachpark B104LJU a Leyland Tiger / Palxton PARAMOUNT 3200 C49FT
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Paramount Studios
Los Angeles, California USA
February 1, 2005
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PSV licensed Plaxton Paramounts are now well down into double figures but this diddy Dennis Javelin continues to operate in its original Somerset home. ANZ 4374 was new to Wakes of Wincanton as F990 FYB, morphing into a South West Coaches vehicle on its tenth birthday. It was seen amongst more modern buses in Yeovil Bus Station this lunchtime, 15th November, 2019.
Regular grooming of their coat is a must for Mountain Hares to keep them well insulated from the cold!
The blade sign of the Paramount Theater, reflected against the building opposite it on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.
View of the main balcony foyer at the Paramount Theatre, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, September 1931 (TWAM ref. DX1677/1/1).
The Odeon Cinema opened on Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne on 7 September 1931. It as originally known as the Paramount Theatre but was taken over by Odeon in 1939. The Odeon’s luxurious décor made it one of the country’s finest cinemas and arguably the North East’s best loved. Most of the images in this album date from its opening and convey a real sense of the building’s elegance and beauty. Sadly the cinema closed in 2002 and was demolished in 2017.
This image is from an album which was kindly donated to the Archives by the Northumberland & Newcastle Society.
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Taken in 2016.
The old Paramount Theater on Washington Street in the Theater District. It's been rebuilt and repurposed as a mixed-use residential, academic, and performance center for Emerson College.
In Aurora, Illinois.
Opened in 1931. Art Deco design by Rapp and Rapp with Venetian elements. On the National Register of Historic Places.
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit. (Casa Editrice Ballerini & Fratini, Firenze), no. 2696. Photo: Paramount Films. John Payne in The Eagle and the Hawk/Spread Eagle (Lewis R. Foster, 1950).
American film actor John Payne (1912-1989) is mainly remembered for Film Noirs and 20th Century Fox musicals films. He also starred in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the Western TV series The Restless Gun.
John Howard Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. His parents were Ida Hope (née Schaeffer), a singer, and George Washington Payne, a developer in Roanoke. They lived at Fort Lewis, an antebellum mansion that became a state historic property but was destroyed by fire in the late 1940s. Payne attended prep school at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and then went to Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City in the fall of 1930. He studied drama at Columbia and voice at the Juilliard School. To support himself, he took on a variety of odd jobs, including wrestling as 'Alexei Petroff, the Savage of the Steppes' and boxing as 'Tiger Jack Payne'. In 1942, while visiting his family in Roanoke, Virginia, he agreed to take a small role in a community theatre production of 'The Man Who Came to Dinner', at the Academy of Music on Salem Avenue. In 1934, a talent scout for the Shubert theaters spotted Payne and gave him a job as a stock player. He appeared in road company productions of 'Rose Marie' and 'The Student Prince'. Payne toured with several Shubert Brothers shows, and frequently sang on New York City-based radio programs. On Broadway, he appeared in the revue 'At Home Abroad' (1935–1936) alongside Eleanor Powell and Beatrice Lillie. He understudied for Reginald Gardiner and took over one night. He was seen by Fred Kohlmar of Sam Goldwyn's company and was offered a movie contract. In 1936, he left New York for Hollywood. He tested for a role in Goldwyn's Come and Get It but lost out to Frank Shields. His first role in Goldwyn's Dodsworth (1936) presented him as an affable, handsome character actor. He had the male lead in Hats Off (1936), an independent B-film. Payne was third billed in Fair Warning (1937), a B-film at Fox. He was the lead in a low-budget film Love on Toast (1937). Payne was down the cast list for Paramount's College Swing (1938). He then signed a contract with Warner Bros, where he had a notable break replacing Dick Powell, who turned down the role, in Garden of the Moon (1938). Warners used Payne as a sort of "back up Dick Powell". He was in Kid Nightingale (1939) and Wings of the Navy (1939). Payne supported Ann Sheridan in Indianapolis Speedway (1939) and starred in a short The Royal Rodeo (1939) and in Bs King of the Lumberjacks (1940) and Tear Gas Squad (1940). During this time he returned to Broadway to appear in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938–1939). Payne was unhappy with his Warner Bros roles and asked for a release.
John Payne went over to 20th Century Fox where he appeared in Star Dust (1940). During filming, Darryl F. Zanuck offered him a long-term contract. He supported Walter Brennan in Maryland (1940) and John Barrymore in The Great Profile (1940). Payne was the male lead in the enormously popular Tin Pan Alley (1940) with Alice Faye and Betty Grable. He romanced Faye again in The Great American Broadcast (1940) and Week-End in Havana (1941) and Sonja Henie in Sun Valley Serenade (1941). Fox gave him the chance to do drama in Remember the Day (1941), romancing Claudette Colbert. He was meant to be in Song of the Islands with Grable but when George Raft couldn't get released from Warners Bros to play a marine in the hugely popular To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Payne stepped in. The film, co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott, was hugely popular. So too was Footlight Serenade (1942) with Grable and Victor Mature, Springtime in the Rockies (1942) with Grable, Iceland (1943) with Henie, and especially Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) with Faye. During World War II, Payne served as a flight instructor in the United States Army Air Corps. He got his Honorable discharge in September 1944. He returned to work at Fox, who put him in The Dolly Sisters (1945) with Grable and June Haver, playing Harry Fox. It was one of Payne's most successful films. Less popular was Wake Up and Dream (1946) with Haver. Payne was teamed with Maureen O'Hara in Sentimental Journey (1946), a big hit. He was third billed in The Razor's Edge (1946) underneath Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, Fox's most prestigious film of 1946. Payne's most familiar role may be his final film for Fox, that of attorney Fred Gailey in the classic holiday favorite Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara, and Edmund Gwenn. It was another box office success. He was meant to make another with O'Hara, Sitting Pretty (1948). However, in October 1947 he got his release from the studio, despite the contract having another four years to run, which would have brought him $670,000. Payne claimed he was dissatisfied with the roles being offered him. Payne later said he had asked for his release every week for eight months before he got it. Film historian Jeanine Basinger later wrote that "Fox thought of him [Payne] as a secondary Tyrone Power. They didn't know how to use him."
After leaving Fox, John Payne attempted to change his image and began playing tough-guy roles in Film Noirs. He did two Film Noirs at Universal, Larceny (1948), where he played the lead role and The Saxon Charm (1948) with Robert Montgomery and Susan Hayward. He had the lead in The Crooked Way (1949) for United Artists. Payne received an offer to star in a Western for Pine-Thomas Productions, a unit that operated out of Paramount Studios. El Paso (1949) was a box office success and Payne went on to make other films for the company including Captain China (1950), an adventure film; Tripoli (1950) set during the Barbary War; and The Eagle and the Hawk (1950), a Western. He signed a contract to make three more films for Pine Thomas. He did Passage West (1951), another Western; and Crosswinds (1951), an adventure film; Caribbean Gold (1952), a pirate film; The Blazing Forest (1952), an adventure story; The Vanquished (1952), a Western. Payne shrewdly insisted that the films he appeared in to be filmed in color and that the rights to the films revert to him after several years, making him wealthy when he rented them to television. In 1952 he said he got four times the fan mail he did at Fox. "I make fewer pictures now but I make the kind I want to make."
For Edward Small, he starred in Kansas City Confidential (1952), a Film Noir; Payne owned 25% of the film. He later worked with Small on the pirate movie Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953), and the Film Noir 99 River Street (1953). Payne did a series of Westerns: Silver Lode (1954), for Benedict Bogeaus; Rails Into Laramie (1955), for Universal; Santa Fe Passage (1955) and The Road to Denver (1955) at Republic, and Tennessee's Partner (1955) for Bogeaus. He returned to Pine Thomas for a noir, Hell's Island (1956), then did Slightly Scarlet (1956) for Bogeaus. He made Hold Back the Night (1956) for Allied Artists and The Boss (1956) for United Artists, co-producing the latter. He did Rebel in Town (1956) and Hidden Fear (1957) for United Artists. He made one more Pine Thomas, Bailout at 43,000 (1957). In 1957 he optioned the rights for For the Life of Me, the memoir of a newspaper editor,[20] but it was not made. Payne also starred as Vint Bonner, an educated, commonsense gunfighter, in The Restless Gun which aired on NBC from 1957 to 1959, prior to Dale Robertson's Western series Tales of Wells Fargo. Dan Blocker, James Coburn, and Don Grady made their first substantive acting forays with Payne on The Restless Gun.
In March 1961, John Payne suffered extensive, life-threatening injuries when struck by a car in New York City. His recovery took two years. In his later roles, facial scars from the accident can be detected in close-ups; he chose not to have them removed. Payne directed one of his last films, They Ran for Their Lives (1968), and again teamed up with Alice Faye in a 1974 revival of the musical Good News. He also starred in the Gunsmoke episode of "Gentry's Law" in 1970. His final role was on TV in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady (1975), co-starring with Peter Falk and Janet Leigh. Later in life Payne, like former Daniel Boone-Davy Crockett series star Fess Parker, became wealthy through real estate investments in southern California. Payne was married to actress Anne Shirley from 1937 to 1942; they had a daughter, Julie Anne Payne. After their divorce, Payne then married actress Gloria DeHaven in 1944; the union produced two children, Kathleen Hope Payne (1945) and Thomas John Payne, before ending in divorce in 1950. During the filming of Kansas City Confidential (1952) he had a romance with recently divorced co-star Coleen Gray that continued well past filming. Payne then married Alexandra Beryl 'Sandy' Crowell Curtis in 1953 and remained with her until his death. He was the father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne, who was married to his oldest daughter Julie until their divorce in 1982. John Payne died in Malibu, California, of congestive heart failure in 1989, aged 77. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in motion pictures and television.
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Located on State Street, the Paramount Theatre in Bristol, Tennessee was built between 1930-31 at a total cost of $210,000. Opening night was February 21, 1931, with a Carol Lombard movie. Prices were 50 cents night, 35 cents matinee and 10 cents children. During the 30s and 40s there were live performances of vaudeville shows, the Big Band sounds of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Charlie Spivak, Harry James, Grand Ole Opry stars Tex Ritter, Ken Maynard, Gabby Hayes, Johnny Mack Brown, Ernest Tubb, and Cowboy Copus.
The last movie was shown in 1979. The theatre essentially sat empty for the next ten years. The theatre was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Plans to renovate began to form. Bristol and its surrounding community donated 1.3 million dollars to the project, which was matched with one million dollars from the State of Tennessee by a special act of the legislature. The restoration/renovation was started in December 1989 and completed seventeen months later for re-opening April 1991.
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Taken in 2016.
The "2015" data is wrong.
The Paramount was once a 1700-seat movie theater on Washington Street downtown. (I went to more than a few movies there before it closed in 1976). Now it's a performing arts center for Emerson College.
I can't remember where I took this! Within the 13th century south curtain wall I think.
We don't know when the newly finished Bothwell Castle became habitable. It is known to have been in use in 1278, as in that year Walter de Moravia dated a charter from "Botheuyle". Just 13 years later, Edward I of England was asked to arbitrate between the various claimants for the vacant Scottish throne. The claimants were forced to acknowledge Edward as their Lord Paramount and accept his arbitration (a decision influenced in part by the fact that most of the claimants had large estates in England which they would have lost had they defied him). Edward then ordered that every Scottish royal castle be placed temporarily under his control, and while Bothwell was not 'royal', it is likely that it came under English control at this time too.
From the naming of John Balliol as King of Scots in November 1292, relations with a domineering Edward of England steadily deteriorated, a situation made worse by Scottish factional fighting. When Edward discovered in 1295 that a Franco-Scottish alliance (later known as the Auld Alliance) had been signed, he started preparations to invade the following year.
A 1956 Paramount Tourer, photographed at the Queen Square, Bristol, classic car meet in September 2013.
the famous paramount theatre in youngstown, ohio was one of the most opulent theatre's in all of the midwest. originally a vaudeville house which opened its doors in 1908, the theater was purchased by paramount pictures in 1918 and converted into a state of the art movie theater with that held 1,700 people. paramount spent $200,000 renovating the theater and modernizing the audio system. the theater remained a popular attraction until the end of the 1960's, when the steel industry (and general economy) took a turn for the worse.
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Some genuine Paramounts here, but there are two impostors. Pictured in a wet Tredegar, this line up at Park View, taken sometime in 1987, includes Hills B618 CKG; MHB 850P; A775 WHB; RNY 304Y; OWO 906M and C233 HTX. The Paramount impostors are of course MHB and OWO, which carried Supreme III and Elite III bodies respectively. Whilst Hills treated a few Plaxton Elites and Supreme III coaches to the newer style Supreme IV front, these were the only two to receive a Paramount front as part of a mid life refurbishment. B618 CKG was a 1985 12 metre Paramount 3500; A775 WHB was a 1984 12 metre Paramount 3200; RNY 304Y was a 1982 11 metre Paramount 3200 Express (the first Paramount for the company), whilst C233 HTX was a 1986 12 metre Paramount 3200LS.
Austin, TX- April 2019- The Paramount Theater on Congress Avenue. it was built in 1915. @andrea smith
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. W 68. Photo: Paramount.
Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence. By 1944 Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was a favourite of her directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Catherine Ann (McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens, a bricklayer. Her mother died when she was accidentally knocked off a trolley by a drunk. Her father abandoned his children in the grief after the death of his wife. Barbara was brought up by her elder sister and was partially raised in foster homes. Later, she went to work at the local telephone company, but she had the urge to enter show business. At seventeen, she went to work as a showgirl. In 1928 Barbara moved to Hollywood, and proved to be an extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role. Barbara was equally at home in all genres, from melodramas, such as Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932) and Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937), to thrillers, such as Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944), also starring Fred MacMurray. She excelled in comedies such as Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940) and The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) and in Westerns, such as Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille, 1939).
Barbara Stanwyck was also well known for her TV roles as Victoria, the matriarch of the Barkley family in the Western series The Big Valley (1965). In 1983, she also played in the hit mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), which did much to keep her in the eye of the public. She turned in an outstanding performance as Mary Carson. One of her last roles was in the hit drama series The Colbys (1985). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times, for Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards, for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), The Big Valley (1966) and The Thorn Birds (1983). Her performance in The Thorn Birds also won her a Golden Globe. She received an Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. She was also the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the American Film Institute (1987), the Film Society of Lincoln Center (1986), the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (1981) and the Screen Actors Guild (1967). Barbara Stanwyck died in 1990, leaving 93 films and a host of TV appearances as her legacy. She was married twice, to film actors Frank Fay (1928-1935) and Robert Taylor (1939-1952). Her son, Dion Anthony 'Tony' Fay (1932) was adopted. Frank Fay and Stanwyck's marriage and their experience in Hollywood later became the basis of the Hollywood film A Star is Born. Their stormy marriage finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Despite rumours of affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford, Stanwyck wed Robert Taylor, who had gay rumours of his own to dispel. Their marriage started off on a sour note when his possessive mother demanded he spend his wedding night with her rather than with Barbara. In 1957 Tony, her adopted son, was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak." She saw him only a few times after his childhood.
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Three Stanways Paramounts in the yard at the end of the day, in March 2012, framed by two more of the type.
The former Kings Ferry Mercedes O303 (585 WKN, new as H16 KFC) is flanked by two Dennis Javelins with Brummie origins - J70 SWC was new as J110 VDA at Meadway, while JIG 3668 was new as F370 MUT at Pattersons.
All gone now, of course - the O303 was scrapped by its next owner, JIG was exported in 2015, and SWC was decaying in a yard in Hertfordshire a year or two back.
Amarillo, Texas.
"The Paramount Theatre was opened April 20, 1932 with Charles Ruggles in “This is the Night”. It was just as the Depression was leaving its mark on Amarillo, which had feasted on the fruits of the 1920’s oil boom until the global crash caught up with it.
The Paramount Theatre was Amarillo’s premier first-run theatre for decades, but fell behind the multiple screen suburban complexes in the 1970’s, and closed March 20, 1975 with “Report to the Commissioner”.
It was gutted and converted to office space, but the Pueblo Deco style exterior is still as beautiful as ever. A hint of its grandeur can be seen in the second level of the parking garage that fills the old auditorium. The painted starburst ceiling is still intact, as is golden plasterwork that framed the top of the stage. The original chandelier and the giant blade sign from the facade have been preserved in a now-closed disco in the city’s warehouse district.
The sign was restored and place it back in its original location."