Century Theatre

Century Theatre London was originally built and operated by Loew’s Theatres — it was quite ornate. Nat Taylor’s Twinex Century Theatres (a Famous Player partner) took it over in 1964 and made it into two fairly nice theatres. The smaller theatre (The Little Century) was a bit too shotgun in its approach for me. Mike Rogers and TS Loews I just want you guys to know that I hung around and knew this one very well!!

Already did.

By the way I was refering to the photos from the June 26, 2009 post the fifth one down.

1982 photo. almost misses the theatre,needed to be centered.When i take a picture I try and get the subject.

The first picture above is not the Loews as it had no balcony,the second picture is not the Loews either but the rest are.

This is another 1982 photo.

A slightly more direct link to the pictures Warren referred to:
View link

and two more from the Ontario Archives:

http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011987.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0011984.jpg

I’ve removed the two photos that I displayed above on 7/16/07 since they can just as easily be viewed at the following website, which is essential for anyone doing research on Ontario theatres. I try to reserve my scrapbook for material that is otherwise unavailable on the internet:
www.archives.gov.on.ca/English/exhibits/theatres

All of the nearly 2,000 seats were on the ground floor, which was unusual for a Thomas Lamb theatre of this size:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/loewlondon01.jpg
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/loewlondon02.jpg

This site, which talks about primarily the Capitol Theatre in Windsor (originally the Loew’s Windsor), says that Lamb’s design of the Loew’s London/Century was very similar to the Capitol/Loew’s Windsor, as well as to the Capitol in Brantford, ON, the Capitol in Winnipeg, and the Pantages in Hamilton, all designed by Lamb.