Bay Theatre
45-47 Queen Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M5H
45-47 Queen Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M5H
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Opened as the Colonial Theatre in 1910, it was one of Canada’s earliest theaters purpose-built to show silent films exclusively. It was renovated in 1919 using stonework from a demolished Customs House on its facade. It closed in 1933, re-opening as The Bay Theatre in 1949 or 1950.
It closed in 1965; an office tower stands on the site.
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Christopher Walczak
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A picture of the theatre as the Colonial can be seen here:
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1957 photo of the Bay Theatre.
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Here’s an updated link to the same picture; clicking on it changes its size:View link
Sorry; it’s an updated link to the picture I posted on June 4, 2008.
How I would have loved to have been old enough to have been in that cinema.
Revised link to the photo of the theatre when it was the Colonial that I originally posted on June 4, 2008: https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/fo1231/f1231_it0085.jpg.
Need to remove ther period at the end of the link. Photo link