Talk:Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)

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Hi. There was a theater in DC that experienced a roof collapse on January 28, 1922. It was "Crandall's Knickerbocker Theatre." It was not the "Knickerbocker Theater." Every picture of the theater verifies this. Please go to Google images.

Someone will have to make a correction to this page. I have made (again) the correction at the Knickerbocker Storm wiki. There's no question about this. I know there's a Knickerbocker in New York. That has a wiki too.

Thank you. 208.103.155.149 (talk) 01:03, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/images/1922policeline_web_std.jpg 208.103.155.149 (talk) 01:54, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for making the change of theater ----> theatre. Now what we need is for someone to find a copy of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford and show it on the anniversary. I suspect it has been lost to the ages, though. 155.103.6.254 (talk) 21:24, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

On January 28, 2012, the 90th anniversary of the disaster, I once again made the correction. "Theatre" had been changed to "Theater" back in October 2011. Please look at the picture at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/images/1922policeline_web_std.jpg. The establishment was "Crandall's Knickerbocker Theatre." Thank you for understanding. 63.234.238.4 (talk) 19:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

March 23, 2015: there's an article at Ghosts of DC, and it got the spelling wrong. The tag at GoDC has the spelling right. The links to the pictures at the Capital Weather Gang blog have gone bad, so let's see what a good one looks like these days. Here are two: https://thewashingtonsyndicate.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1922knickerbocker_web3.jpg and https://thewashingtonsyndicate.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1922policeline_web1.jpg. Really, people, it's not that hard. Best wishes. 152.180.6.2 (talk) 16:27, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

January 28, 2017. Hi. Kevin Ambrose's Capital Weather Gang article links to article in another Wiki, https://failures.wikispaces.com/Knickerbocker+Theater+Collapse. Don't know if linking to other Wiki's is OK. Another year has gone.38.104.59.114 (talk) 20:46, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

In the wake of today's slush storm, DC's first snowstorm this season (which took place mostly in the western half of the metropolitan area), WUSA9 TV's chief meteorologist recalled the Knickerbocker Storm (amongst others) and architect Reginald Geare's subsequent suicide, but added that his design demanded the roof supporting arch girders go into the supporting walls eight inches, but the contractor built them going only two inches into such walls.96.255.153.182 (talk) 05:49, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

June 27, 2021: "The incident is the deadliest building collapse in American history, and the second deadliest non-dam structural failure, behind the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse." If there are no more survivors found in the building collapse in Florida, this might no longer be the case. ~~

Me again. I feel we should be consistent with the Surfside page and the Pemberton Mill page. Pemberton Mill, we will never know the toll. Surfside, that could grow to be more than the Knickerbocker. Omitting the information is not the answer, IMO. Thanks. ~~

Change name to Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster

The article primarily talks about the disaster and not the theatre itself. It makes more sense to name it Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bremps (talk • contribs) 00:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)