Forest Theater

4635 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, MI 48201

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Comfortably Cool
Comfortably Cool on January 9, 2016 at 4:05 pm

During the early silent era, the Forest Theatre drew patronage from all over the city to hear a gigantic instrument made locally by the Detroit Organ Company.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 17, 2008 at 2:48 am

From Boxoffice magazine, January 1938:

DETROIT-“Marihuana”, being distributed locally by Charles Garner, has just been booked for the Forest, Belmont, Loop, Granada, Colonial and Majestic theaters, Garner reports, after playing in a six-year record at the Columbia.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 29, 2006 at 3:09 am

Here is a 1953 lawsuit filed by the buyers of the Forest:
http://tinyurl.com/y7k53x