Hi, David. Do you have any documentation confirming that Isadore Levey was the manager of the Columbia Theatre? Contemporary articles and advertisements state that Messrs. Keating & Flood were the proprietors and managers when the theater opened in 1907, and then Ben Dillon and Will King ran the theater starting in 1911. I can’t find any mention of Isadore Levey in any Oakland newspapers, nor any connection between Bert and the Columbia.
Check out the links on the Oakland Wiki page for the Columbia Theatre for more info: https://localwiki.org/oakland/Columbia_Theatre
It appears that this theater was only called World Theater for two years — shouldn’t it be listed here as the El Rey, the name it held for the longest time, and what it was called when it closed?
The map and street view for this theater do not show the correct location. The 1400 block of San Pablo Avenue was between 14th and 15th Street — which is now part of Frank Ogawa Plaza. The Broadway Building / Lionel Wilson Building referenced in the description is described here: oaklandwiki.org/First_National_Bank_Building–Lionel_Wilson_Building And this is now the approximate location of the Bell Theatre: http://goo.gl/HSSMtn
Hi, David. Do you have any documentation confirming that Isadore Levey was the manager of the Columbia Theatre? Contemporary articles and advertisements state that Messrs. Keating & Flood were the proprietors and managers when the theater opened in 1907, and then Ben Dillon and Will King ran the theater starting in 1911. I can’t find any mention of Isadore Levey in any Oakland newspapers, nor any connection between Bert and the Columbia.
Check out the links on the Oakland Wiki page for the Columbia Theatre for more info: https://localwiki.org/oakland/Columbia_Theatre
The Novelty Theater opened on 9/22 in 1902, not 1904: https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-amusements-for-the-week/151382918/
The Marquee Theatre seems to have opened in 1914, not 1916:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86744150/perils-of-pauline/
The pic is from a different Pleasant Hill drive-in: http://www.driveins.org/de-newport-pleasanthill.html
It appears that this theater was only called World Theater for two years — shouldn’t it be listed here as the El Rey, the name it held for the longest time, and what it was called when it closed?
http://goo.gl/77cIU7
The street view above shows the wrong block. http://goo.gl/vIno4I shows the approximate location.
The map and street view for this theater do not show the correct location. The 1400 block of San Pablo Avenue was between 14th and 15th Street — which is now part of Frank Ogawa Plaza. The Broadway Building / Lionel Wilson Building referenced in the description is described here: oaklandwiki.org/First_National_Bank_Building–Lionel_Wilson_Building And this is now the approximate location of the Bell Theatre: http://goo.gl/HSSMtn