Paramount Theatre
136 2nd Avenue S,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7K 1K5
136 2nd Avenue S,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7K 1K5
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Reopened as Paramount on September 1st, 1966.
Paramount Saskatoon opening Wed, Aug 31, 1966 – 41 · Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) · Newspapers.com
This theatre has special significance to me as my mother was an usher there circa 1957 when she met my father. One of the last movies to be shown at the Paramount was Return of the Jedi.
ScreenClassic is correct. The building has not been demolished. If you move Street View two clicks to the left you can still see the same roof-line it had as the Paramount.
Both grand opening ads uploaded in the photo section.
The Paramount (formerly Daylight) in Saskatoon as well as the atmospheric Capitol Theatre were built and jointly operated by the Daylight Theatre Company Limited (owners Butler and Byers family) jointly with Famous Players Canadian Corporation. The Daylight Company was originally in partnership with the Allen Family. When the Allens went bankrupt, the receiver sold their interest in these theatres to Famous Players Canadian Corporation. The local families had to approve the sale.
The Paramount Theatre building is actually not demolished, but was simply renovated for retail use after the theatre closed. Compare this photo [link] and this photo [link] with the building in the Google street view above – this is the same building in all three views.
This opened on January 1st, 1917
you can see its ad at View link
According to this online photo exhibit from the Saskatoon Public Library, this house was the second theater in Saskatoon to be called the Daylight. Photo #6 shows the original Daylight Theatre which opened at 321 22nd Street East in 1912.
The second Daylight Theatre opened at 136 Second Street South on January 1, 1917. It is featured in photos #9, #10, and #20 of the library’s exhibit. In 1966, the Daylight was drastically remodeled, losing its Palladian facade, and was renamed the Paramount Theatre in August that year. The exhibit has no photos of the house as the Paramount, but there’s one here.
The text accompanying photo #10 of the library’s exhibit says that the “…interior of the Daylight Theatre was originally likely designed by the architectural firm of Thompson, Daniels and Colthurst.”
A 1911 Saskatoon City Directory has the firm’s name correctly listed as Thompson, Daniel and Colthurst, and gives the individual names as Norman L. Thompson, T. Brammall Daniel, and G. Buller Colthurst. When I searched for additional information about these architects, the results included the Cinema Treaasures page for the Red Triangle Theatre in Plaistow, London, England, which was located in a 1919 building designed by T. Brammall Daniel. A directory of British architects working between 1834 and 1914 says that Daniel began practicing in Saskatoon in 1911, after having worked in Manchester, England, for a number of years. He must have returned to England not long after the Daylight was built, but the directory doesn’t say.
THREE Library Database shots of the Daylight Theatre:
1—> View link
2—> View link
3—> View link
The address of the Daylight Theatre, later became the Paramount.
According to Wikipedia, the Daylight operated between 1935-1965.
The Daylight Theatre opened in the mid-1930s.
It apparently seated 900 seats.