Forest Theater
4635 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit,
MI
48201
4635 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit,
MI
48201
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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.
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.
Here is a 1953 lawsuit filed by the buyers of the Forest:
http://tinyurl.com/y7k53x