The Clash at the Walnut Street Theater; also, Lincoln Assassin's Bros.
The Clash played here on September 22, 1979, during their The Clash Take the Fifth Tour. The Undertones opened. The Clash came out while the house sound system was playing Little Richard's Rip It Up. What a night!
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Walnut Street Theater , 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, United States
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Concerts, Music Festivals, History, Lincoln, Abraham, Rock and Roll, Theaters
Name : plaquemaster Email : sjkc0072@aol.com Comments : This theater appears in the novel, Magic Words, by Gerald Kolpan, Pegasus, 2012. Date : 2012-07-02
Name : plaquemaster Email : sjkc0072@aol.com Comments : On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. At the same time, the Walnut Street Theater was owned by Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, the brother of Lincoln-assassin John Wilkes Booth. See Lynn Millers article in todays Philadelphia Inquirer, at p. A14. Edwin had sided with the North, and people did not hold his brothers terrible crime against him. Date : 2015-04-15
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Email : sjkc0072@aol.com
Comments : This theater appears in the novel, Magic Words, by Gerald Kolpan, Pegasus, 2012.
Date : 2012-07-02
Email : sjkc0072@aol.com
Comments : On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. At the same time, the Walnut Street Theater was owned by Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, the brother of Lincoln-assassin John Wilkes Booth. See Lynn Millers article in todays Philadelphia Inquirer, at p. A14. Edwin had sided with the North, and people did not hold his brothers terrible crime against him.
Date : 2015-04-15