The Parkdale Theatre in 1937. Photo City of Toronto Archives Series 1278, File 10130 The Parkdale Theatre at 1605 Queen Street West, on the northwest
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The Playhouse Theatre c. 1938. Movies showing are Mae West in “Klondike Annie” and Margaret Lindsey in “The Law in Her Hands,”both films released in
The University Theatre in 1969. Photo by J. Goode, Toronto Reference Library Located at 100 Bloor Street West, the University Theatre was a short
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Toronto’s old Allen’s Bloor Theatre (the Bloor, Lee’s Palace)
Site of the Allen Bloor Theatre, with its colourful graffiti art, at 529 Bloor Street West. Photo taken in 2014. On a hot summer afternoon
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Toronto’s old (Odeon) Carlton—Part 11
Cover of the pamphlet designed for the opening of the Toronto Odeon Theatre, later renamed the Odeon Carlton. Graphic courtesy of Walter Godfrey of Toronto.
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Toronto’s old Madison Theatre Part II
The Midtown Theatre c. 1940, photo City of Toronto archives, Series 1278, File 103 When I was a teenager in the 1950s, for two
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Toronto’s Music Hall (Allen’s Danforth)—Part 11
Allen’s Danforth Theatre, now the Music Hall in 2014. When I was a teenager, I lived in the west end of the city
Savoy Theatre c. 1963, the film “The Three Godfathers” having been released in 1948. Photo, Ontario Archives, AO 2273 As a teenager in the 1950s,
Gazing north on Bay Street from Adelaide Street toward Queen Street and the Old City Hall, in December 1944. In December 1944, the Second World
The Oakwood Theatre in 1939, the film “Wizard of Oz” on the marquee as the featured film. The “coming attraction” is advertised as being “Dark