Royal Theatre (Baltimore)
The Royal Theatre, located at 1329 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, first opened in 1922 as the
All of the biggest stars in black entertainment, including those in
Scar of Shame, featuring a black cast. It was here that Solomon Burke was crowned the King of Rock 'n" Soul in November 1963.[3][4]
As
civil rights riots, the entire community began a period of long decline. At the time of the riots, the Royal Theatre was owned by the JF Theatres chain.[5] In 1971, the Royal Theater was demolished.[1]
The Royal Theater Marquee Monument was to be phase one of an ongoing series of projects that the Pennsylvania Avenue Redevelopment Collaborative (PARC) would lead. PARC and the Pennsylvania Avenue Committee worked closely with the Mayor's Office, the Upton Planning Committee, and 14 community groups over seven years to erect the Royal Theater Monument in 2004. However, widespread
urban blight still remains: the entire Pennsylvania Avenue corridor has long since been razed, and nothing survives there today insofar as theaters. In the vacant lot where the Royal Theatre once stood, there is a sign declaring the Royal Theatre Memorial Park, but nothing has come about to make the "park" anything other than a fenced-in area.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ a b "Royal Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- Baltimore Sun. pp. 1 and 10.
- ^ “Newsnight Maryland,” 1999-03-11, Maryland Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 23, 2016. Segment on "The Avenue" begins at 18:24
- ^ "Royal Theatre - Baltimore". The Concert Database. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ "buildings damaged during riots.pdf" (PDF). University of Baltimore. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
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