But vaudeville also took its final bow in the first half of the s and still the Riverside survived. Long since recast as a film house, the Riverside fell on tough times and by the dawn of the s, there was a move to close the theater once and for all. That crazy man, says Nelson, was Joseph Zilber, whose Towne Realty bought the theater in and still owns it today.
There was talk also of making it a beer garden, which is interesting. They were going to remodel it and do offices or whatever. Zilber won and fix it he did. An intensive renovation was undertaken in and for the next decade, the Riverside hosted performances by the likes of Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, the Beach Boys, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles.
Since then, the 2,seat entertainment palace has been livelier than perhaps ever, hosting the likes of Neil Young, Paul Simon, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby. It was kind of off and on. And there are a lot of nooks and crannies. There are doors everywhere.
Some lead to closets, others to backstage rooms, others into passages that lead to storage rooms. Through a door in the eighth floor backstage catering room, we find the mechanicals: the air intakes and giant wheels that turn giant fans that heat and cool the entire venue.
These heating and cooling spaces — some now disused — are often big enough you can climb right into them. Nearby, there is a random stack of cushioned chairs. Once in a while we can peer down through a hole at the seats below. Credit: Melissa Miller. Widespread Panic performing the Riverside in Credit: Dan Ojeda. Marcus Corp. Kenny Chesney will return to American Family Field this spring.
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