1922---Washington Post, The (1877-1954)
ELDRIDGE--Suddenly, on Saturday, January 28, 1922, at 9:10 p.m. ALFRED GEORGE ELDRIDGE.
Funeral from St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church on Wednesday, February 1, at 11 a.m. Friends of family invited to attend. (Boston and Norfolk papers, please copy.) (Per death certificate Alfred and wife Harriette were victims of Knickerbocker Theatre collapse)
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The Knickerbocker Theatre was a Washington, D.C., movie theater located at 18th Street and Columbia Road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. It collapsed on January 28, 1922 under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133 more. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington. D.C. history.
1922---Washington Post, The (1877-1954)
ELDRIDGE--Suddenly, on Saturday, January 28, 1922, at 9:10 p.m. ALFRED GEORGE ELDRIDGE.
Funeral from St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church on Wednesday, February 1, at 11 a.m. Friends of family invited to attend. (Boston and Norfolk papers, please copy.) (Per death certificate Alfred and wife Harriette were victims of Knickerbocker Theatre collapse)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Knickerbocker Theatre was a Washington, D.C., movie theater located at 18th Street and Columbia Road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. It collapsed on January 28, 1922 under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133 more. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington. D.C. history.
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