Forest Theatre

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The Forest was divided into a 900-seat house sometimes called the Forest Ballroom and later called the Forest Avenue Cinema. The other part was called the Central Forest Club and later the Forest Central Night Club. But that wasn’t a success. Full-time movies returned to the Forest Avenue Cinema on September 6, 1974 with “Lighting Swords of Death” and “Thomasine & Bushrod” as the theater tried kung-fu and blaxploitation fare with minimal success. Five years later, when Albert H. Reynolds bought the city block in 1979 housing the theater, blaxploitation films returned for less than a year ending the Forest’s cinematic days. Live shows would be attempted in periods thereafter.