A noirish interlude from this theater's long life is the Ginevra Knight case, in which the 18-year-old assistant manager
shot dead an attempted carjacker, coming home late one night from work. It was 1947, just months after the Black Dahlia murder. Folks were
jumpy.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
While vicariously exploring (via Google street views) the streets that border Elysian Park I came across this building along Riverside Drive.
google street view
Upon closer inspection I noticed the building houses a theater company and began wondering about it's history.
I visited the Knightsbridge Theater website where it notes the building had originally been a silent movie house called The Colony Theater.
Here is their website.
http://www.knightsbridgetheatre.com/history.html
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Next I visited http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/5069
Cinema Treasures lists the former names as the Riverside Theater, New Elysian Theater, and Elysian Theater but does not mention
the Colony Theater (the silent movie house).
A commenter on Cinema Treasures posted this snapshot from 1948.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...02d01cc19f.jpg
Another commenter wrote, "When this theater opened it was the Riverside Theater."
and yet another said they knew it as The Elysian in the 1950s (as opposed to the New Elysian), and still no mention of the Colony Theater.
So I am curious, does anyone have information on this theater at 1944 Riverside Drive?
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