Imperial Oil Centre for the Performing Arts
168 North Christina Street,
Sarnia,
ON
N7T 7H8
168 North Christina Street,
Sarnia,
ON
N7T 7H8
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The former Capitol Theatre opened in 1936 as a local movie house which sat over 600 patrons. In 1988, after a long, successful run, the theater closed.
Scheduled to be demolished, the theater was saved by the Steering Committee of the Sarnia Little Theatre and its Art Deco opulence was restored.
Today, the Capitol is known as the Imperial Oil Centre for the Performing Arts, after the corporate benefactor who helped to restore it.
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Gary Flinn
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When it was the Capitol Theatre, it was owned and operated by the Famous Players theatre circuit.
The Archives of Ontario has a page about the theatre which you can read at View link
That page mentions that the architect of this theatre was Mandel Sprachman.
Here is a close-up view of the Imperial.
This is a May 2008 photo.
Here are photos of the Capitol Theatre:
1982 Photo
1985 Photo
1987 Photo
A 1947 picture from the Ontario Archives:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012555.jpg
Here is a photo circa 1952:
http://tinyurl.com/yecpaqr