Loew's Theatre
952 Rue Ste. Catherine Ouest,
Montreal,
QC
H3B 1H1
952 Rue Ste. Catherine Ouest,
Montreal,
QC
H3B 1H1
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Opened on November 19, 1917, Loew’s Theatre was Montreal’s grandest movie palace. The theater originally featured vaudeville before becoming a venue solely for motion pictures in 1940.
Loew’s Theatre closed in 1975 after the last showing of "Jaws". In December 1976, the theater reopened with five screens with cinema one in the former orchestra area, cinema three in the balcony, cinema two over the orchestra, and cinema four and five in the backstage area. The opening movie was "King Kong" in all five cinemas, French in Cinema 1 and Italian in Screen 3.
The Loew’s Theatre was closed in October 1999, then part of the Famous Players chain.
During 2000 the division between the five screens was demolished, restoring the original single auditorium configuration.
Club Med World opened in the former theater building in 2001, but closed in March, 2003. Since 2004, the former lobby area has been used for retail, while the former auditorium was transformed into a gym in 2005.
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Mike Rivest
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Great postcard veiw Don Lewis.
Mike opening day ad says Loews Vaudeville Theatres.A.K.A?
In the 1970’s it changed from Loew’s to Loews 5 (and Eaton’s to Eaton) due to bill 101.
Thanks Mike Rivest,what is bill 101?
View link has the answer
Thanks Mike for the information.
While in Montreal for Expo 67 I saw Two For the Road here. English with French subtitles. As with smart films playing in foreign markets (I remember the audience in Ghent at a Touch of Class sitting silently while I was laughing)it didn’t go over too well with the locals.
I posted a postcard picture along with the grand opening ads from 1917 and 1976.
Thanks for posting the photo and Ads rivest266.
I worked there in 1978 as an usher, I think we were at least 20 ushers at that time, we had so much fun there, used to go sit behind the big screen in Cinema1. On Saturday nights all ushers were working at the same time, each of us were making animal noises in the main lobby, it sounded like a real jungle. I remember lots of cool people from that time, unfortunately they are all only in memory.