Stories about Knickerbocker Theatre

Guest Posts, Historical Events / 16.03.2015

The Knickerbocker Theatre Tragedy

Exterior of the Knickerbocker on opening day, 1917

This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng Winter storms like hurricanes are regularly named every year. This naming practice, however, was not always the norm. One snowstorm that hit DC in 1922 was named “The...

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Historical Events / 06.02.2014

Footage of 1922 Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster Aftermath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62ec3Ilgno Many of you will be familiar with these images from the Knickerbocker Theater disaster. We haven't yet written about it, but there's an excellent write-up on it at here and at Greater Greater Washington.

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If Walls Could Talk / 16.04.2012

If Walls Could Talk: Tivoli Theater Was “The Temple of the Arts”

Tivoli Theater (photo by Flickr user dbking)

You can't walk past the Tivoli Theater in Columbia Heights and not admire it, imagining what the surrounding streets were like in the late 1920s. The arrival of Harry...

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