A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the June 10, 1920 edition of the newspaper.
Forrest Theater Building Closed; Building Inspector Condemns Property
Credit: Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library Archive
The Forrest Theater building was condemned this morning by Building Inspector Wildman.
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During the early hours of the morning a large group of bricks above one of the windows in the Mill Street front of the building fell to the sidewalk with a crash. A crack in the brick wall of the front just below the cornice has opened diagonally for a distance of several inches. This is almost in the center of the building.
On the interior, cracks have opened up in the plaster in several of the offices. Police today roped off the entrance to the building, and Building Inspector Wildman notified the owners to the effect that the building was unsafe for the public and that repairs would have to be made at once and satisfactorily.
It is not thought that the condition will interfere with the production of the “Pinafore Revue” on next Thursday night. The inspector today said that he thought that repairs could be made by the time if work was started at once.
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The cause of the crumbling of the plaster and the loosening of the bricks has not been ascertained. Some claim that it is due to the settling of the building, while others argue that the increased traffic of trucks rumbling constantly over the highways in the vicinity have been the cause.
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