Tag: Jesse H. Jones

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The Arts Venue Houston Deserved: Jones Hall Turns 50

Posted on · Fifty years ago today, on Oct. 3 1966, Houston’s Jones Hall for the Performing Arts held its first concert, hosting the Houston Symphony – which still calls the hall home today. Other organizations have called it home over the years too, like the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet and Society for the Performing Arts. […]

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Shell Leaving Downtown, and Jones Hall Turns 50: Monday’s Show (October 3, 2016)

Posted on · Recently (Sept. 20, 2016), Shell Oil announced plans to vacate most of its downtown offices. Thousands of employees are expected to move to the company's Woodcreek Complex on I-10 and North Dairy Ashford and to the Shell Technology Center on State Highway 6. The move is planned for the first quarter of 2017. On this […]

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Unprecedented Power: Archive of Jesse H. Jones Documents Set to Open

Posted on · Jesse H. Jones was a businessman, a cabinet member and played a significant role in rescuing failing banks and businesses during the Great Depression. And his name is familiar from the facades of numerous cultural institutions around Houston. And now, an archive of his personal effects and communications will open to the public at Rice […]

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Teaching Confederate History and Rebuilding Post-Hurricane Ike: Tuesday’s Show (April 7, 2015)

Posted on · The U.S. Supreme Court is currently grappling with whether Texas was wrong to reject a specialty license plate displaying the Confederate battle flag. As modern day battles over what the flag and other Confederate symbols mean go on, students in Houston classrooms continue to learn and discuss the history and legacy of the Confederacy in […]