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The Ice House (Flagstaff, Arizona)
The Ice House may refer to: * ''The Ice House'' (novel), a 1992 novel by Minette Walters * The Ice House (comedy club) The Ice House Comedy Club is a comedy club located at 24 Mentor Avenue in Pasadena, California. The Ice House continues to thrive and during its many decades of operation has entertained over four million people. History It was opened in 1960 by ..., a California comedy club * ''The Ice House'' (1978 film), a BBC drama featured as ''A Ghost Story for Christmas'' * ''The Ice House'' (1969 film), an American trash/horror/thriller film * ''The Ice House'' (St. Petersburg), an Ice House built in January 1740 in Russia. See also * Icehouse (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ice House, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ice House (novel)
''The Ice House'' (1992) is the first crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The story was the recipient of a John Creasey award for best debut. Synopsis Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties, lives in Streech Grange with her two companions Diana and Anne. One day her servant Fred finds a rotting corpse in their ice house, a storage room inside a hillock that hasn't been used for years. DCI George Walsh thinks it may be the corpse of Phoebe's husband David, who went missing ten years ago. Back then, Walsh suspected her of killing her husband, but this was never proven. Inhabitants of the village believe that the three women are lesbians, and that Phoebe did not only kill her husband but also her parents. They died in a car crash after garage owner KC neglected to check their brakes. One of the villagers, Dily Barnes, has forbidden her children Peter and Emma to play with Phoebe's children Jonathan and Jane. The grounds are searched and the three women and Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ice House (comedy Club)
The Ice House Comedy Club is a comedy club located at 24 Mentor Avenue in Pasadena, California. The Ice House continues to thrive and during its many decades of operation has entertained over four million people. History It was opened in 1960 by Willard Chilcott who, soon after, took on folk music icon Bob Stane as his partner.Toland, Terry"Bob Stane: For the Man Who Owned Pasadena's Ice House - It's All For The Love of the Game" '' No Depression'' magazine, March 3, 2011. Interview with Bob Stane. From 1960 to 1978, The Ice House, originally managed by Keith Pearce, aka, O'Brien, was a folk music club with acts coming from around the country to perform. During that same time, many comedians also appeared at the club. In 1978, the original owners were bought out by a trio of investors led by Bob Fisher who changed the format of the club to stand-up comedy. Notable people Among performers who have recorded some of the more than 75 live albums at the club are the Smothers Broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ice House (1978 Film)
''The Ice House'' is the last of the eight short films originally broadcast as part of the BBC's '' A Ghost Story for Christmas'' series of the 1970s, the first not directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark; Clark had become a freelance director and was working for ITV. The film was instead directed by Derek Lister. It was first shown on BBC One on 25 December 1978. Like its predecessor, it was an original story. It was written by John Bowen who had earlier adapted ''The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'' in 1974. The film stars John Stride, Geoffrey Burridge and Elizabeth Romilly. In the film, Paul (John Stride) has recently left his wife and has moved to a residential health spa located in an old country house to recuperate. A number of strange disappearances and attacks of "the cools" make Paul begin to suspect a strange flower growing near an old ice house and the strange behaviour of Clovis (Geoffrey Burridge) and Jessica (Elizabeth Romilly), the brother and sister who run the spa, may b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ice House (1969 Film)
''The Ice House'' (also known as ''Love in Cold Blood'' and ''The Passion Pit'') is a 1969 American horror- thriller film directed by Stuart E. McGowan. The feature starred the twin brothers David and Robert Story, with Jim Davis, Scott Brady, Nancy Dow, Karen Lee, and model/actress Sabrina in one of her last film roles. After actress Jennifer Aniston rose to fame, the film gained notoriety because her mother, former actress Nancy Dow, had a role in it. Plot Ric Martin (Robert Story), a disgraced cop, long since fired from police work, makes a sexual approach to Ice House dancer Venus De Marco (Sabrina) and is struck with a beer bottle for his efforts. Angered, he stalks the dancer, and when she again raises a bottle in a defensive manner, he strangles her. He is thwarted in his efforts to hide the body at a local lovers' lane, and ends up hiding it at The Ice House, where he works in the menial position of attendant. Other women become his victims and their bodies are stored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ice House (St
The Ice House may refer to: * ''The Ice House'' (novel), a 1992 novel by Minette Walters * The Ice House (comedy club), a California comedy club * ''The Ice House'' (1978 film), a BBC drama featured as ''A Ghost Story for Christmas'' * ''The Ice House'' (1969 film), an American trash/horror/thriller film * ''The Ice House'' (St. Petersburg), an Ice House built in January 1740 in Russia. See also * Icehouse (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ice House, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1740 In Russia
Events from the year 1740 in Russia Incumbents * Monarch – Anna (until ), Ivan VI (from ) * Regent – Ernst Johann von Biron ( – ), ''Sovereign and Grand Duchess'' Anna Leopoldovna (since 20 November) Events * January - The Ice House was built in St. Petersburg. * 28 October - 2-months old Prince Ivan Antonovich succeeds Empress Anna of Russia as Ivan VI under the regency of Anna's favourite Ernst von Biron. * 20 November - Biron was arrested by the guards led by Burkhard Christoph von Münnich * The rulers of the northeast of the Middle Zhuz, including Ablai Khan, concluded an agreement on the Russian protectorate over the Middle Zhuz. Births * 29 February - Thomas MacKenzie, admiral, founder of Sevastopol. * 7 May - Nikolai Arkharov, Governor General of Moscow (1781–1784) * 28 May - Fedot Shubin, architect * - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia in 1740–41. (d. 1764) * - Ivan Lepyokhin, Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer. (d. 1802) Deaths * 8 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |