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American Seating Company Factory Complex is a historic manufacturing plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Van Andel Arena is a 10,834-seat multi-purpose arena, situated in the Heartside district, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. After a $75 million... construction effort, the arena opened on October 8, 1996 and since has attracted over five million patrons. It is home to the popular Grand Rapids Griffins ice hockey team, the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings. It was also the home court of the now defunct Grand Rapids Hoops basketball team, as well as the Grand Rapids Rampage, the city's arena football team. As a concert venue, the Van Andel Arena seats about 12,858 for end-stage shows, and 13,184 for center-stage shows. The arena floor measures 85 by 220 feet . The arena features 9,886 permanent seats and 44 luxury suites, with the 16 luxury suites in the upper bowl seating 20, and the lower 24 bowls seating 15, and the others at 18. There are approximately 1,298 retractable seats at Van Andel Arena. The original estimated cost to build the arena was at $75 million. The 12,000-seat arena is managed by SMG Property Management. It was in recognition of the largest benefactors, Jay and Betty Van Andel.
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Welsh Auditorium was a 3,800-seat multi-purpose arena and convention center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was home to the Grand Rapids Hoops, of the... Continental Basketball Association. It was eventually demolished in 2003, to make way for the DeVos Place Convention Center.
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Division Avenue – Plaster Creek Bridge is a bridge in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. It is listed on the National Register of Historic... Places. It crosses Plaster Creek, an urban stream that drains into the Grand River.
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Anthony Kiedis is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning and 2012 Rock And Roll... Hall Of Fame inductees, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his 12th birthday, to Hollywood, California to live with his father. After high school, Kiedis began taking classes at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest because he was unable to make any close friends during his time there. After dropping out, Kiedis received an offer to be the opening act for a local band, and enlisted friends Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons to assist. After a show under the name "Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem" the band progressed and the line-up eventually became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to a Lithuanian John Kiedis, also known professionally as Blackie Dammett, an actor, and Margaret "Peggy" Nobel. In 1966, when he was three years old, his parents divorced.
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Kim Zimmer is an American actress. She is known for her role as Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live and best known for her role as Reva Shayne on... Guiding Light. Zimmer's career began with stage work; an early television role was her portrayal of the character of Bonnie Harmon on One Life to Live in 1978. In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors. After The Doctors was canceled in 1982, she had a brief return to One Life to Live from February through November 1983 as Echo DiSavoy. On August 17, 2010, it was announced that after a twenty-seven year absence, Zimmer would reprise the role of Echo, effective October 1. Zimmer will be featured in a story along with former Guiding Light co-star Jerry verDorn , Robin Strasser and Erika Slezak . She reprised the role on October 1, 2010. Later in 1983, Zimmer was cast in the role for which she is best known, the character of Reva Shayne on the television soap opera Guiding Light.
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Richard Shoberg is an American actor and writer. He first appeared in soap operas as Mitch Farmer on Somerset from 1971 to 1972. After leaving... Somerset he returned to daytime as the Kevin Jameson #1 on The Edge of Night from 1972 to 1975. He has 2 children and resides in New York and works as a tattoo artist at Golden Hammer Studios and talented painter. Shoberg's most famous role to date is former football player-turned-restauranteer Tom Cudahy on All My Children, a part he played from July 1977 to April 1995, with a return for some appearances between 2004 and 2005. When he is not acting, he is teaching classes on soap opera techniques.
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Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and former film critic. Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most... notably known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan and Charles A. Schrader, an executive. Schrader's family practiced in the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church, and his early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old, and was able to sneak away from home. In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, had quite some effect on him. Schrader refers his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie making to his having no adolescent's movie memories. Schrader received his BA from Calvin College, with a minor in Theology. He then earned an MA in Film Studies from the UCLA Film School graduate program upon the recommendation of Pauline Kael.
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Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick... of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS. He is also known for his voice work in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Andy Barker, P.I.. Richter, the third of four children, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother, Glenda Swanson , was a kitchen cabinet designer, and his father, Laurence R. Richter, taught Russian at Indiana University for more than 32 years. Richter was raised in Yorkville, Illinois. He is of Swedish and German descent. In high school, he was elected Prom King. In the late 1980s, Richter attended Columbia College Chicago as a film major. While at Columbia he learned the basics of comedic acting and writing by starring in numerous student films and videos. After leaving Columbia in 1988 Richter worked as a production assistant on commercial shoots in Chicago. In 1989, he began taking classes at Chicago's Improv Olympic.
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Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. , is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as... the lineal championship in three different weight classes. He is a two-time The Ring "Fighter of the Year" winning the award in 1998 and 2007, and also Boxing Writers Association of America "Fighter of the Year" in 2007. He is undefeated as a professional boxer. Currently, Mayweather is the WBC World Welterweight Champion. He was formerly rated as the "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BBC Sports and Yahoo! Sports but was removed from the rankings due to retirement and currently due to inactivity. Boxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since he was in diapers. When other children were throwing baseballs or footballs, he was throwing punches. He never seriously considered any other profession. "I think my grandmother saw my potential first," Mayweather said, smiling. "When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.
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Anthony Kiedis is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning and 2012 Rock And Roll... Hall Of Fame inductees, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his 12th birthday, to Hollywood, California to live with his father. After high school, Kiedis began taking classes at UCLA, but dropped out after losing interest because he was unable to make any close friends during his time there. After dropping out, Kiedis received an offer to be the opening act for a local band, and enlisted friends Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons to assist. After a show under the name "Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem" the band progressed and the line-up eventually became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to a Lithuanian John Kiedis, also known professionally as Blackie Dammett, an actor, and Margaret "Peggy" Nobel. In 1966, when he was three years old, his parents divorced.
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James Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight... divisions. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High School. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts. Toney's amateur boxing record is 33 fights, 31 wins and 2 losses with 29 KOs. He won the 1983 and 1984 West Michigan Division Junior Title , 1987 Novice Golden Gloves in Manchester , 1987 Michigan Silver Gloves and 1988 Ohio State Fair Toney had his first professional fight on October 26, 1988, beating Stephen Lee by a technical knockout in the second round. He was scouted and trained by Gregory Owens as a teenager, who also was his trainer through the mid-nineties. His moniker of "Lights Out" was also given by either Gregory or his son. On March 10, 1989, his manager Johnny "Ace" Smith was killed outside of the Page One Bar in Detroit. Jackie Kallen then became his manager. He won the Michigan Middleweight title in 1990, knocking out Philip Morefield in the 1st round.
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Kim Zimmer is an American actress. She is known for her role as Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live and best known for her role as Reva Shayne on... Guiding Light. Zimmer's career began with stage work; an early television role was her portrayal of the character of Bonnie Harmon on One Life to Live in 1978. In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors. After The Doctors was canceled in 1982, she had a brief return to One Life to Live from February through November 1983 as Echo DiSavoy. On August 17, 2010, it was announced that after a twenty-seven year absence, Zimmer would reprise the role of Echo, effective October 1. Zimmer will be featured in a story along with former Guiding Light co-star Jerry verDorn , Robin Strasser and Erika Slezak . She reprised the role on October 1, 2010. Later in 1983, Zimmer was cast in the role for which she is best known, the character of Reva Shayne on the television soap opera Guiding Light.
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Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and former film critic. Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most... notably known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan and Charles A. Schrader, an executive. Schrader's family practiced in the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church, and his early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old, and was able to sneak away from home. In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, had quite some effect on him. Schrader refers his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie making to his having no adolescent's movie memories. Schrader received his BA from Calvin College, with a minor in Theology. He then earned an MA in Film Studies from the UCLA Film School graduate program upon the recommendation of Pauline Kael.
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Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick... of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS. He is also known for his voice work in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Andy Barker, P.I.. Richter, the third of four children, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother, Glenda Swanson , was a kitchen cabinet designer, and his father, Laurence R. Richter, taught Russian at Indiana University for more than 32 years. Richter was raised in Yorkville, Illinois. He is of Swedish and German descent. In high school, he was elected Prom King. In the late 1980s, Richter attended Columbia College Chicago as a film major. While at Columbia he learned the basics of comedic acting and writing by starring in numerous student films and videos. After leaving Columbia in 1988 Richter worked as a production assistant on commercial shoots in Chicago. In 1989, he began taking classes at Chicago's Improv Olympic.
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Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. , is an American professional boxer. He is a five-division world champion, where he has won seven world titles, as well as... the lineal championship in three different weight classes. He is a two-time The Ring "Fighter of the Year" winning the award in 1998 and 2007, and also Boxing Writers Association of America "Fighter of the Year" in 2007. He is undefeated as a professional boxer. Currently, Mayweather is the WBC World Welterweight Champion. He was formerly rated as the "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, BBC Sports and Yahoo! Sports but was removed from the rankings due to retirement and currently due to inactivity. Boxing has been a part of Mayweather's life since he was in diapers. When other children were throwing baseballs or footballs, he was throwing punches. He never seriously considered any other profession. "I think my grandmother saw my potential first," Mayweather said, smiling. "When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.
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