Just a correction: My grandmother’s brother, Ben Robins, married Anna Warner. I have film of Anna Warner in my grandparent’s yard (2915 Cresent Drive, Warren) in 1939, about a year after Ben’s death. Ben is buried in Children of Israel Cemetery in Youngstown.
Let me correct some of the family relationships mentioned in the first posting. It was Ben Robins who married Anna Warner. Ben died in 1937. I have home movies from 1939 showing Anna Warner Robins (dressed in black) along with many of the Goldston and Robins family.
For the past several years, I have been quietly promoting the concept of an interactive digital performance center in University Circle, Cleveland. One aspect of this would be a very-high-speed fiber optic link to a (renovated) Robins Theater in Warren. Performances from the very many cultural centers in Cleveland could be linked to Warren, which then might become a regional outreach venue for the arts. It might also be possible to utilize the array of offices/studios around the 2nd floor of the Robins for interactive lessons linked from Cleveland, where there are very many artists-in-training who teach. Indeed, a performing arts company in Warren might even participate in a joint performance with another Northeastern Ohio company.
A bold, regional concept like this will be a SLOW sell. Northeastern Ohio is not as accepting of innovaton as is, say, Silicon Valley. It might take a decade or more to obtain funding, but
tearing down the Robins now would provide no benefit to Downtown Warren. There are acres of empty space in Downtown should someone want to build a new theater. It would make as much sense to tear down the magnificent Court House because of the city block of land around it!
Thank you for the suggestion about bequeathing the materials. I will check with my cousins and, if they concur, will assemble the materials and deposit the materials (or copies) with The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.
My grandfather, I.J. Goldston designed the Robins Theater and my mother, Sylvia Goldston, cut the ribbon at the theater’s opening. Her mother, Gertrude Robins Goldston, had a brother, Dan, who ran the Robins, Daniel, and Ohio Theaters in Warren for many years.
I have memorabilia from ‘way back related to the theater.
Just a correction: My grandmother’s brother, Ben Robins, married Anna Warner. I have film of Anna Warner in my grandparent’s yard (2915 Cresent Drive, Warren) in 1939, about a year after Ben’s death. Ben is buried in Children of Israel Cemetery in Youngstown.
Rob Lake
No, I don’t know Nathaniel A. Riggle. Google doesn’t find him, either.
Let me correct some of the family relationships mentioned in the first posting. It was Ben Robins who married Anna Warner. Ben died in 1937. I have home movies from 1939 showing Anna Warner Robins (dressed in black) along with many of the Goldston and Robins family.
For the past several years, I have been quietly promoting the concept of an interactive digital performance center in University Circle, Cleveland. One aspect of this would be a very-high-speed fiber optic link to a (renovated) Robins Theater in Warren. Performances from the very many cultural centers in Cleveland could be linked to Warren, which then might become a regional outreach venue for the arts. It might also be possible to utilize the array of offices/studios around the 2nd floor of the Robins for interactive lessons linked from Cleveland, where there are very many artists-in-training who teach. Indeed, a performing arts company in Warren might even participate in a joint performance with another Northeastern Ohio company.
A bold, regional concept like this will be a SLOW sell. Northeastern Ohio is not as accepting of innovaton as is, say, Silicon Valley. It might take a decade or more to obtain funding, but
tearing down the Robins now would provide no benefit to Downtown Warren. There are acres of empty space in Downtown should someone want to build a new theater. It would make as much sense to tear down the magnificent Court House because of the city block of land around it!
Thank you for the suggestion about bequeathing the materials. I will check with my cousins and, if they concur, will assemble the materials and deposit the materials (or copies) with The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.
Rob Lake
My grandfather, I.J. Goldston designed the Robins Theater and my mother, Sylvia Goldston, cut the ribbon at the theater’s opening. Her mother, Gertrude Robins Goldston, had a brother, Dan, who ran the Robins, Daniel, and Ohio Theaters in Warren for many years.
I have memorabilia from ‘way back related to the theater.
Robin Lake