Cinecity
6 Charles Street East,
Toronto,
ON
M4Y 1T2
6 Charles Street East,
Toronto,
ON
M4Y 1T2
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The Cinecity Cinema was located at the corner of Yonge Street and Charles Street East in Toronto. It opened in 1966 and had 260 seats.
The Cinecity Cinema showed mainly art and foreign films with art work on the walls and Italian renaissance elements in the lobby and inside the theater.
Sadly the Cinecity Cinema closed in 1975. The decor was later put to good use though — it is now a high class Italian restaurant.
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Chad Irish
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This is probably considered cheating but I snagged this from “Google Street View” this shows 4 and 6 Charles Street East.
I assume “Cinecity” was the building where the people are sitting at the table. I don’t know if it also incorporated the building to the left or not?
http://i49.tinypic.com/289hdms.jpg
Nope. Not Cinecity. It was a former Post Office, right on the NE corner of Yonge & Charles.
Yes you are right the even numbers are on the north side of the street.
I wonder if they renumbered the street at some time because the old “Postal Station F” dates from the late 1800s.
So the cinema couldn’t have been there.
Well from the Google satellite shot at the NE corner, it looks like the old building is still there. I’ll have to drive by one of these days and see.
The old Post Office Building is still there.
I guess the cinema was in the Post Office building.
It just didn’t look suitable to me.
The front of the building contains a 24hr McDonalds.
Yes, that’s the one. The entrance for the cinema was at the east end of the building on Charles St. and the screen would have been on the west side facing Yonge St.
Here is a photo I took on Monday February 8th 2010 of the building Cinecity was located in.
http://i47.tinypic.com/oqzszm.jpg
I have established now that the building was erected in 1905.
Yup, that’s the one. The cinema entrance was where the yellow awning is on Charles St.
My one and only trip to Cinecity was to see the Beatles Yellow Submarine at a midnight showing. The projectionist ran the sound through all the speakers to make up for the mono sound and I was truly amazed at how large the screen was for such a small theatre. The only artwork I saw on the walls was posters for upcoming movies.
Yup, telliott is right on the money here about location and direction of screen. I saw Gimme Shelter at Cinecity about 7 times from 1973-1974. It always ran Friday nights at midnight I believe. Steady crowd with a decent lineup outside the Charles St entrance. Great movie if you could see it through the smoke.