Prior to the closing of the International Paper Company mill in Camden, Ouachita County had considerable elements of organized labor, which traditionally favors state and national Democrats.

Prior to closing the Altus High School mascot was the Owls and competed in the 1A classification of the Arkansas Activities Association ( AAA ).

Prior to 1944, in British Columbia, the Public Schools Act ( 1872 ) permitted the use of the Lord ’ s Prayer in opening or closing school.

Prior to its closing in late 1969, Eastern State Penitentiary ( then known as State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia ) had established a far reaching program of group therapy with the goal of having all inmates involved.

Prior to closing the online store, he released all songs from World Domination and Crush Television ( plus some songs from Underground Archives ) for free download.

Prior to the closing of the base, the most important task was the reclamation and salvage of the stored aircraft.

Prior to its closing on April 1, 2011, it was the last remaining island prison in the country.

Prior to the album's release, the song Something Special would be chosen to become the closing title music for the 1987 MGM production Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and the piano bridge from the song " Dixie Flyer " would subsequently often be utilized as break or filler music on public radio and public television.

Prior to closing, Casa Alianza Guatemala was the largest service provider to homeless youth in Guatemala, serving nearly 150 children each night in its residential program and having one of the region's strongest legal support programs for disenfranchised youth.

Prior to closing in 1994 it claimed to be the longest continually-manned military installation in the United States.

Prior to Ezra, the mitzvah of Torah reading was based on the Biblical commandment of Hakhel ( Deuteronomy 31: 10 – 13 ), by which once every 7 years the entire people was to be gathered, " men, women and children ," and hear much of Deuteronomy, the final volume of the Pentateuch, read to them ( see the closing chapters of the Talmudic Tractate Sotah ).

Prior to that, the high school was located in a smaller building on Chancellor Street in Newtown ; a building that later became Chancellor Street Elementary school before closing in 2002.

Prior to this album, Jane Monheit's closing song in her concerts had usually been " Over the Rainbow ".

Prior to the company's closing in October 1998, they were working on Golgotha, a hybrid of first-person shooter and real-time strategy.

Prior to its closing, Vegas World featured the world's largest mural.

Prior to closing on Ruff's purchase, Congressman Reilly had crucial discharge pipes removed and sold for their value as scrap steel, so there was no practical way to lower the level of water behind the dam should repairs be indicated.

Prior to its closing in 2010, Olney was the home of Cardinal Dougherty High School which was once the largest Roman Catholic high school in the United States.

Prior to its closing, Tyndale was held afloat financially by Regent University for a short time, beginning in 2003.

Prior to the closing, there had been a partial merging of the newspaper staff with the Star.

Prior to the Challenger accident, Gardner was chosen to be a member of the first Shuttle mission to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Prior to the Yerkes facility opening in 1930, Yerkes was engaged in his own research with two great apes, aptly named “ Chim ” and “ Panzee ”.

Prior to 1945, the facility had been owned by the United States Army Air Corps.

Prior to the first closure experiment in Biosphere 2, initial tests were carried out in a smaller, 480 cubic meter onsite facility ( the " Test Module "), looking at potable water generation, atmospheric sealing, atmospheric expansion and contraction, and the behavior of life systems inside a closed ecological system.

Prior to its official April 15 opening, 60, 000 people toured the new facility during a two day open house event.

Prior to the building's opening the area around it was sprayed with chemicals to deter insect or animal life from approaching the facility.

Prior to the opening of Gresty Bridge, Pete Waterman's facility at Crewe LNWR was utilised by the company.

Prior to its construction, a large tent on the same site was used as a dining facility during summer camp.

Prior to the facility becoming contractor-operated, it was staffed primarily by civil service workers and military personnel, who were housed on government owned property neighboring Hawthorne, including the now-extinct town of Babbitt and military housing known as Schweer Drive.

Prior to the opening of the Stratford facility, Stratford's students were housed in temporary buildings on the Westchester campus.

Prior to these services the banking facility were provided by Citibank.

Prior to its opening as an adult male correctional centre in 1991, the facility known variously as the Tamworth Institution for Boys, the Tamworth Boys ’ Home, and Endeavour House, was a male juvenile justice centre that pre – dated the establishment of the Kariong Youth Correctional Centre which opened in September 1991.

Prior to establishment of KSC, test launches of the Pencil Rocket, Baby Rocket and Kappa Rocket had been performed at the pioneering Akita rocket test facility ( Michikawa ) from the mid-1950s to the 1960s.

Prior to Jersey Boys, the facility was the home of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard and the original production of the 1993 Revival of Show Boat.

Prior to opening, the facility had been referred to as the Aurora Events Center.

Prior to its completion, Mind Computers, a Winnipeg-based company, acquired the naming rights of the facility.

Prior to his first appearance in Stargate SG-1, McKay was stationed at the Area 51 facility where he became one of the premier experts on the Stargate network outside of Stargate Command.

Prior to the building of the arena, MSU played their home games at All Seasons Arena, built in 1974, which is now their main practice facility.

Prior to the completion of the current facility, the former city hall was so overcrowded that the civic administration was operating out of several different downtown office buildings, and council meetings had to be held in the auditorium of the Sudbury Public Library's Mackenzie branch.

Prior to December, 2005, WYAB's broadcast tower facility was located at a site near Benton.

Prior to 1992, the facility was known as England Air Force Base, which was a front-line United States Air Force base which was opened during World War II and was used during the Cold War.

Prior to the building of UDW, Indian students traveled by ferry to a facility at Salisbury Island, which had been established in 1961 as the University College for Indians UDW offered degrees in commerce, law, engineering, and many sciences.

Prior to the 1970s a large portion of Koondoola had been a regional landfill facility.

Prior to June 1970, the United States Air Force ( USAF ) used the facility, then known as Wheelus Air Base.