Roxy Theatre
320 20th Street West,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7M 0X2
320 20th Street West,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7M 0X2
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Very little information on this theatre. It opened on 28th August 1930. It was closed in 1995 and was re-opened after a restoration in the fall of 2005. A second screen has been added to the building, but this doesn’t interfere with the original auditorium space.
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The Roxy opened on 29 Aug 1930 and was designed by Winnipeg architect, F F LeMaistre.It was also known as the Coronet and Towne cinema.The interior was in the style of a Spanish Villa with a dark blue ceiling with twinkling stars and the theatre also had two cloud machines.Several exterior photos appear at
www.scs.sk.ca/saskatoon100/COSdrivetour/77.htm
Here is a recent photo of the Roxy theater.
Here are some recent Roxy related photos. Click each photo to expand it.
Scroll down on this website for some great photographs of the Roxy Theatre:
http://saskatoonlive.com/
As Atmos posted on Mar 27, 2006 the architect was F.F. LeMaistre. You can see the architects name on this plaque.
This is another photo of the Roxy.
Kind of a neat article in the local Saskatoon website about the Roxy. Sounds like a place worth visiting.
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Pictures I took of Roxy in September of ‘09—>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azzaelea/tags/roxy/
Thanks for the pictures. Playing May 1 1967 is “A COVENANT WITH DEATH”.
Architect Max Blankstein’s middle initial was not E. His middle name was Zev. This page from the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada has a list of some of Blankstein’s designs, and it includes the Roxy. Blankstein’s office was in Winnipeg, quite some distance from Saskatoon.
I’ve found only a couple of period references to F. F. LeMaistre; one from 1915 listing him as a draftsman and one from 1939 listing him as an architect with offices at 112 Bryce Street in Winnipeg. I’ve been unable to discover anything about LeMaistre’s role in the Roxy project. However, I do see considerable resemblance between the Roxy and the Palace Theatre in Winnipeg, built in 1912 and expanded and remodeled in 1927-28, with Max Blankstein being both the original architect and the architect for the remodeling.