{"id":995,"date":"2005-07-05T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/07\/05\/re-marquee\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T22:03:47","slug":"re-marquee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/re-marquee\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Marquee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/22948188\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gizmondo Austin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/photos\/22948188_3b03b7ded2_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve driven down South Congress in the past 6-12 months you may have noticed the slogans that have been appearing on the marquee at the old Cinema West\/Austin Theater. They&#8217;ve featured everything from l33t speak to references to the latest Star Wars film to homages to the recently deceased Hunter S. Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The space is currently occupied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmondo.com\/\">Gizmondo Austin<\/a>, formerly Warthog Austin. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, Future Protocol, an Internet services firm, renovated the theater during the dot-com boom and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/stories\/2001\/02\/19\/daily13.html\">then promptly went bankrupt in 2001<\/a> (surprise, surprise). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/issues\/dispatch\/2001-05-25\/pols_naked3.html\">According to the Austin Chronicle<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avatartechnology.com\">Avatar Technology<\/a> deal fell through shortly after it was publicized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>, a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogging.la\">Metroblogging Los Angeles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.buzznet.com\/user\/?id=567851\">captured a shot of the sign<\/a> on a visit back in October of last year, which brought the marquee to the attention of people outside of Austin. You can get the inside scoop on the sign from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematicweapon.com\/blog\/\">blog of one of Gizmondo&#8217;s employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve driven down South Congress in the past 6-12 months you may have noticed the slogans that have been appearing on the marquee at the old Cinema West\/Austin Theater. They&#8217;ve featured everything from l33t speak to references to the latest Star Wars film to homages to the recently deceased Hunter S. Thompson. The space <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/re-marquee\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-g3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}