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MercurysBall2 ago

Philip and Rebecca Silvestri of Casa de Campo now run Plano Profile in TX as the Silvestri family has deep ties to Plano.

New Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones addresses a standing-room-only crowd at the Plano Chamber of Commerce Quarterly luncheon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jones

Jerral Wayne "Jerry" Jones (born October 13, 1942)[2] is an American billionaire businessman and has been the owner of the National Football League (NFL)'s Dallas Cowboys since 1989....

According to an interview with Jones on HBO, after graduating from college in 1965, he borrowed a million dollars from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters union to open up a string of Shakey's Pizza Parlor restaurants in Missouri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey's_Pizza

Shakey's Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain based in the United States.[1] Founded in 1954, it was the first franchise pizza chain in the United States.[2][3] In 1968, the chain had 342 locations.[4] The chain had about 500 stores globally, and 58 in the United States, as of July 2019.

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Roman Abramovich and his yacht Eclipse in the Caribbean. One might also mention that he paid $875 million to construct AT&T Stadium in Arlington to house the NFL’s most valuable franchise in the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones Jr. is the Cowboys' chief sales and marketing officer/vice president. The yacht Lady Moura listed for sale. Upon graduation, Jones borrowed a million dollars from Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters union to open up a chain of Shakey’s Pizza Parlor restaurants in Missouri. The yacht Octopus, listed for sale. Arthur Blank and his yacht dreAMBoat in Miami. Son of former Razorback and Dallas Cowboys Vice President Stephen Jones and wife Karen, and grandson of Jerry Jones, co-captain of Arkansas’ … Owner Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys | Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Jerry Jones first made a name for himself as the co-captain of the University of Arkansas 1964 national championship football team. If everything is bigger in Texas, it’s probably because Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones owns it. Shahid Khan is selling his Kismet yacht, as he is building a large yacht Jones owns a home in Destin, Florida. ­­­ In one of the most dramatic eras of ownership in professional sports, Jerry Jones' stewardship of the Dallas Cowboys has brought unprecedented results and success to one of the world's most popular sports entities. Jones revealed in July 2015 at press conference before Cowboys training camp that he had undergone hip replacement surgery, joking that he wouldn't start the season on the PUP list. Jerry Jones and his yacht Bravo Eugenia in Miami. You could start with his $250 million yacht that’s longer than a football field (good luck parallel parking that in the marina). Jones becomes the 15th owner in history to earn a bust in Canton. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones conducted the 2020 NFL draft while relaxing on a sofa that would sleep six comfortably, from within a room decorated like a …

MercurysBall2 ago

So Philip and Rebecca Silvestri 's engagement was at Disneyworld and their wedding at Stockyards in Fort Worth https://localprofile.com/2015/10/29/look-who-plano-profile/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Stockyards

The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, north of the central business district. A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in 1976.[1] It holds a former livestock market which operated under various owners from 1866.

.The arrival of railroads in 1876 made the area a very important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for business on January 19, 1890, covering 206 acres. On February 7, the Fort Worth Dressed Meat and Packing Company was founded. This facility was operated without profit until purchased by G. W. Simpson of Boston. In an effort to produce revenue, they reached out to the Swift and Armour companies to establish packing houses.

On April 1, 2011, the Fort Worth Stockyards Stables were remodeled and reopened. They are located next door to the Hyatt hotel in an original Historic Stockyards building that was built in 1912. These stables offer full care boarding, overnight boarding, hourly boarding, horse rentals on the open trails of the Trinity River and carriage rides. Boarders can ride their horses all around the Historic Stockyards.

The Grapevine Vintage Railroad runs a heritage railway service between Grapevine station and The Stockyards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_Vintage_Railroad

By far the railroad's most popular event, the North Pole Express runs every year late-November through December. ...

.#2014 and #2016 are two EMD FL9 diesel locomotives that have recently been acquired by the railroad. They were originally owned by the New Haven Railroad, numbered 2041 and 2044, respectively. They were transferred to ConnDOT/MTA Metro-North Railroad for commuter service between New York City and New Haven, CT when the New Haven Railroad was absorbed into Conrail.[5]

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (reporting mark NH), commonly known as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.

Beginning in the 1890s and accelerating in 1903, New York banker J. P. Morgan sought to monopolize New England transportation by arranging the NH's acquisition of 50 companies, including other railroads and steamship lines, and building a network of electrified trolley lines that provided interurban transportation for all of southern New England. By 1912, the New Haven operated more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of track, with 120,000 employees, and practically monopolized traffic in a wide swath from Boston to New York City.

..The remnants of the system now comprise Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, much of the northern leg of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, ConnDoT's Shore Line East, parts of the MBTA, and numerous freight operators such as CSX and the Providence and Worcester Railroad.[3] The majority of the system is now owned publicly by the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

..Major freight yards were at South Boston, Taunton, Fall River, New Bedford, Providence, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven (the major Cedar Hill hump classification yard), Maybrook (another hump yard and interchange point for western connections), New York Harlem River and New York Bay Ridge (where interchange was made with the PRR and other railroads in New Jersey, via barge (car float))