Jun 5, 2006
[Vic's note: those of us who didn't suffer the immediate and long-lasting destruction tend to forget all the little things that are still missing from Katrina victim's lives.]
Roll ‘em: Moviegoers excited by theater’s reopening
Monday, June 05, 2006
By JOHN SURRATT
The Mississippi Press
GAUTIER — Steve Richards peered through the spaces in the gate blocking the entrance to the soon-to-open Ritz Theater in the Singing River Mall.
“I’m glad to see it opening back up,” Richards, who works at Sears, said. ” Now I won’t have to go to D’Iberville to watch a movie.”
Closed since Hurricane Katrina, the former Village Theater in the mall was bought by its former manager, Carolyn Gaffney, and her daughter, Kristy. It is expected to reopen Friday at 1 p.m.
The theater’s new name brings back a bit of Pascagoula’s history, when the former Ritz Theater at the intersection of Pascagoula Street and Watts Avenue showed films to area residents. The building that held the theater is now a law office.
News of the theater’s reopening was greeted with joy by a number of people who were at the mall Sunday afternoon. [More...]
Jun 5, 2006
By KURT MOORE
The Marion Star
Editor’s note: The subjects in this weekly series are chosen as we go about the business of reporting local events. Their stories have everything to do with how we live our lives.MARION - Emilee Lamb-Hart and other students of Krista Gerhart’s fourth- and fifth-grade class had read and heard about the devastation that Hurricane Katrina left behind. A trip to the affected region offered Emilee, 10, the kind of first-hand look that one can’t get from just reading books.
While she couldn’t take her classmates with her, she found a way to include them in the experience.
Emilee traveled with her mom, Pam Lamb-Hart, and 24 other members of Mount Gilead’s Trinity United Methodist Church in April on a mission trip to hurricane-struck D’Iberville, Miss. [More ...]
Jun 5, 2006
The South Mississippi Sun Herald
1920s saw tourism boom; 2006 sees Tivoli’s doom
June 04, 2006
Photographed in May 1927, a bevy of beauties shows off the latest swimwear fashions on the lawn of the Tivoli,
Biloxi’s newest resort hotel. The Tivoli was one of four hotels that opened on the
Mississippi Coast within 60 days in the winter of 1926-27.The new hotels, the Pine Hills north of
Pass Christian, Biloxi’s Edgewater Gulf and Tivoli, and the Markham Hotel in
Gulfport, quickly filled with the overflow from the popular and older Buena Vista, Great Southern, Riviera, White House, Miramar and Hotel Biloxi.Weeks before the Tivoli’s grand opening on Feb. 19, 1927, the hotel was already booked. Many visitors arrived in time for Mardi Gras, which fell on Feb. 16 that year. With Easter late, the hotel’s winter and summer seasons merged.
That was 79 years ago. The steady thud of the wrecking ball, heard in East Biloxi in recent weeks, was the death knell for the heavily Katrina-damaged Tivoli, which had stood derelict for a number of years. Now only the Markham building remains as the last reminder of those grand hotels built during the halcyon days of the 1920s.
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