Sesame Place moves toward Irving Texas opening 1982
Plans announced to build Sesame Place in Irving on a 303 acre site at Airport Freeway and Esters Road. The seven acre educational park will open summer 1982 with 50 computer games, science exhibits, kid powered outdoor elements and a Sesame Street themed interior. The $10 million project will employ up to 300 staff seasonally and offer indoor and outdoor activities for children ages three to 13 and their parents.
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Airport Freeway
Highway 183
Esters Road
W. Randolph Baker
Busch Entertainment Corp
Busch Gardens
Williamburg
Tampa
Fla
Sesame Place
Children’s Television Workshop
The
Electric Company
Jim Henson
Sesmae
Mr. Hooper
Sesame Studio
Correction on Diet Center Injections Pricing
A Life Style correction notes that the June 7 story centers help dieters misstated injection price at 15 dollars per dose. The actual cost is 12 dollars per visit. Also the article wrongly said injections taper. patients actually receive three injections weekly until reaching their weight loss goal.
Vintage cars to be shown in Detroit show
Detroit heading to an early year automobile show featuring vintage cars from the citys golden era. The display highlights the region once home to more than a dozen auto manufacturers.
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Detroit
Motor Capital
Observatory open summer hours at McDonald Center
UT McDonald Observatory at Mount Locke publishes summer schedule through August 31 with daily hours 9 am to 7 pm Monday to Saturday and 1 pm to 7 pm Sundays. The 107 inch telescope remains open in the Visitors Gallery on the fifth floor. Star parties offered at Davis Mountain State Park amphitheater at 9:30 pm on Fridays in June and on Tuesdays and Fridays in July and August. Visitors may bring binoculars for the eight inch telescope viewing.
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University of Texas McDonald Observatory
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McDonald Observatory
W. L. Moody Jr
Davis Mountain State Park
Statue of Zeus at Olympia One of the Seven Wonders
The statue of Zeus at Olympia was a lithe work of Phidias rising just over 30 feet tall. Its surface was ivory and gold and it stood for nearly 900 years as a Wonder. Erected about 430 B.C and destroyed by fire in A.D. 462 in Constantinople after being moved from its original temple in 426.
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Olympia
Greece
Phidias
Constantinople
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