Fifty Before '50: Niles/Essanay, Part II: The Edison Theater
by JBWhat a wholesome little conclave.Last week I wrote lovingly of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California. It is a special place that I enjoyed visiting. The museum also encompasses an original Nickelodeon theater that showed silent movies from 1916 to 1924 when it was “replaced” by a bigger theater next door, The Edison. The Edison showed movies from 1924 until 1956, when an unfortunate fire burned it to the ground. Years later, the museum people noticed the original Nickelodeon was still standing, purchased it, renamed it “The Edison” and set about restoring it to its…
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