On his first attempt, he performed the feat perfectly. Wilson scheduled his first two official performances for local viewers at the Sixth Street on August 3, 1908. He learned to ride a bicycle and created an act called, prophetically, “The Whirl of Deathâ€. Hopping a freight to return to Coshocton, he fell under the wheels and lost both legs. A local youth, Wilson went to Columbus when he was 20 to enlist for the Spanish-American war. The victim was William “Fearnaught” Wilson, 30, also known as the “legless wonderâ€. Only five years after its birth, the Sixth Street was the scene of one of the most spectacular and shocking tragedies in Coshocton history. And during that glamorous period some of the greatest actors and actresses in American stage history trod the boards of the old Sixth Street house. But before that, during the first 26 years of its existence, it was Coshocton’s home of the legitimate stage. Hanley lived in Mansfield.įor the last 30 years, the Sixth Street has been devoted largely to movies. Hanley, whose flour mill at Second and Main streets was long a Coshocton landmark, until destroyed by fire.
Heading the company for many years was the late T. The huge brick structure was erected in 1903 by a group of local promoters called the Coshocton Theater Co. And so, James Salmans, local manager, has announced that tonight’s show will mark the end of the Sixth.
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Under terms of the sale, the building cannot be used as a movie theater. The Tribune has announced it has no immediate plans for the property, but that it could prove useful in any future expansion, since it is adjacent to the newspaper plant. is to be reopened by Warner Bros, tomorrow night. The building was recently sold to the Coshocton Tribune by Warner Bros. The final curtain goes down tonight on the historic, tradition-laden Sixth Street theater, for more than a half-century Coshocton’s chief center of entertainment, drama and movies. This is part of an article in the Coshocton Tribune dated 5/14/59:
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