This may be the same article (the above link no longer works): View link
The article is incorrect in stating that the building was demolished; it is still there, across a parking lot from the mentioned supermarket.
The former Parkside in San Francisco for awhile had an unusual combination use; the lower auditorium level was used for day care, while the balcony seating was retained for evening theater/movie screening use.
The former Alabama in Houston and the former Runnymede in Toronto are bookstores. Both of these former theaters have pages here on CT and both pages have links to pictures.
It is possible that there was, at some point, some address renumbering. When I used to go there in the early 70s, that stretch of South Cedar Street was still rather rural with large gaps between the businesses which were mostly farmer’s markets, mom-and-pop motels, and occasionally a car lot. It really did not start to get built up until the later 80s and early 90s.
The matter is even more confusing by looking at the Grand Opening advertisement on the Water Winter Wonderland site; according to the ad, the address was 5509 S. Cedar.
Current telephone directories show an optometrist’s office at this address. Probably the building was torn down and replaced with an office/store block or was converted to retail/office space.
After reading the article, it really does not sound as if there is likely to be any “new life” for the theater; it sounds more like someone just wants the site for redevelopment. I went to this theater several times and one could hardly put “two hotels, restaurants, and shops” on that site without tearing the multiplex down.
These are updated links to pictures Lost Memory posted on March 26, 2005
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011926.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011927.jpg
Because a number of previous links to pictures of the theatre from the Ontario Archives have died, here is a complete updated set of pictures from 1941 when it was Loew’s London:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011982.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011983.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011984.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011985.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011986.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011987.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011988.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011990.jpg
These links will update some of those posted above to pictures of the theatre within the Ontario Archives:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012615.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012616.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012617.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012618.jpg
Three pictures of the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope in 1945:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012545.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012546.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012547.jpg
Here’s an updated link to the picture Bryan Krefft posted above as well as two others from the Ontario Archives:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012556.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012557.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012558.jpg
These links are updates to the ones posted by Chad I on October 19, 2004:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011957.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011959.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011960.jpg
Here are some updated links to two of the pictures of the theatre previously posted above as well as two others from the Ontario Archives:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011937.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0020938.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0020939.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0020940.jpg
Here are some pictures of the University Theatre from the Ontario Archives:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012606.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012607.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012608.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012609.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012610.jpg
Here’s an updated link to the picture I posted on June 5, 2008:
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Here’s an updated link to the 1957 picture I posted on June 4, 2008:
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Here’s an updated link to the picture of the theatre as Allen’s Danforth that I posted on June 4, 2008:
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Here’s an updated link to the picture posted by Lost Memory on February 12, 2005:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012580.jpg
According to the Ontario Archives, here is the theater’s interior as the Capri:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012579.jpg
and this is an updated link to the 1945 picture of the theater as the Midtown originally posted by Lost Memory on June 4, 2008:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012578.jpg
This may be the same article (the above link no longer works):
View link
The article is incorrect in stating that the building was demolished; it is still there, across a parking lot from the mentioned supermarket.
The former Parkside in San Francisco for awhile had an unusual combination use; the lower auditorium level was used for day care, while the balcony seating was retained for evening theater/movie screening use.
The former Alabama in Houston and the former Runnymede in Toronto are bookstores. Both of these former theaters have pages here on CT and both pages have links to pictures.
Here’s an update on plans for the Park Theater:
View link
Only two left for sale at Amazon! Those Chick Chandler/June Clyde masterpieces sell out fast!
It is possible that there was, at some point, some address renumbering. When I used to go there in the early 70s, that stretch of South Cedar Street was still rather rural with large gaps between the businesses which were mostly farmer’s markets, mom-and-pop motels, and occasionally a car lot. It really did not start to get built up until the later 80s and early 90s.
The matter is even more confusing by looking at the Grand Opening advertisement on the Water Winter Wonderland site; according to the ad, the address was 5509 S. Cedar.
There are several pictures here:
View link
Current telephone directories show an optometrist’s office at this address. Probably the building was torn down and replaced with an office/store block or was converted to retail/office space.
After reading the article, it really does not sound as if there is likely to be any “new life” for the theater; it sounds more like someone just wants the site for redevelopment. I went to this theater several times and one could hardly put “two hotels, restaurants, and shops” on that site without tearing the multiplex down.
A picture of the former York Theatre 1 as an event center:
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According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Parkway may reopen:
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A 1980 picture can be seem here:
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