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President at Class Acts Entertainment · Experience: Class Acts Entertainment · Location: Columbus · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Paul Hoy’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community...
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- January 1, 1991
- Class Acts Entertainment
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Columbus Is Central to A Lot of people.
- Columbus Wasn’T Always The Capital of Ohio.
- Columbus Became The Capital Before It Was Even A City.
- Some Fascinating People Were Born in Columbus.
- Wendy’s Originated in Columbus ...
- And The City Is Now Home to White Castle’s Headquarters.
- Columbus Almost Had A Different name.
- Columbus Has Had A Variety of Nicknames Over The years.
- The City Is Home to Some Oddities.
- Abraham Lincoln Found Out He Would Be President While in Columbus.
Forty-eight percent of Americans live within 600 milesof Columbus. Major cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and New York City are less than a day’s drive away.
When Ohio obtained its statehood in 1803, Columbus hadn’t been built yet. Chillicothe, a modest city on the Scioto River, was the original state capital. The seat of government temporarily moved to Zanesville in 1810 before Chillicothe regained its capital city status three years later.
In 1810, Ohio’s general assembly voted to choose a new, permanent capital. The lawmakers agreed that whichever locale they picked would have to lie within 40 miles of the state’s geographic center. Four businessmen from the small town of Franklinton offered 20 free acres of land. On February 14, 1812, this land was selected as the site of Ohio’s cu...
Famous Columbusites include R.L. Stine, author of the bestselling Goosebumps novels, and celebrity chef Guy Fieri. His birth name was actually Ferry, an Americanized version of his grandparents’ surname Fieri, which he adopted in 1995.
Columbus is an incubator for fast food empires. The very first Wendy’s restaurant opened on East Broad Street in November 1969. Today, the franchiseis headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
Burger chain White Castle was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, but has been based in Columbus since 1933.
The Ohio state legislature picked the name Columbus for the still-unfinished capital on February 20, 1812. It had also considered a much duller alternative: Ohio City.
Columbus has had many aliases, including Cowtown and Cbus. Arch City, an 1890s nickname, stemmed from the city’s construction of arches over key streets. The arches provided power to the city’s new electric streetcars.
The Ohio History Center has a genuine two-headed calf, stuffed and mounted for display. The short-lived anomaly was born in 1915; its preserved body was donated in the 1970s.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was visiting then-GovernorWilliam Dennison Jr. at the Ohio Statehouse when he learned that the Electoral College results were in and he’d been elected president.
May 16, 2023 · Five Star Parks & Attractions, a Kentucky-based operator of family entertainment centers, has purchased Scene75 Entertainment. The Dayton-based brand of entertainment centers operates four locations in Ohio: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton; and one near Chicago.
From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the six wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new...
Nov 2, 2023 · COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Cedar Fair, an Ohio-based amusement park operator and parent company of Kings Island, is set to merge with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
Jun 4, 2024 · More than 50 of the best food trucks from all over Ohio are expected to line the Scioto Peninsula on July 12-13, serving up an array of culinary delights.
