Royal Cinema
608 College Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M6G 1C1
608 College Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M6G 1C1
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This restored theater was known as the Pylon when it opened in 1939 in Toronto’s Little Italy section.
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Jason R
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Here is a more recent photo of the Royal Cinema.
This is a 2008 photo.
Perhaps this is the Cinema I’m looking for, checked out the map to see if it would be withing walking distance from where I lived. would anyone know the history around 1970-1975 of this cinema. I see that some of the cinemas have behind them for instances “second run”. If I’m not mistaken this cinema was not only a second run type of movie house but also black and whites.
A July 2008 photo can be seen here.
Thank you Lost for that pic.
CC
The Royal has a website here which is currently down for maintenance. But there is a link there for a facebook site with the movie listings for the Royal.
This is a 2009 photo.
These 1982 photos are captioned Cine Colon/Pylon:
http://tinyurl.com/oxh9f2
http://tinyurl.com/qko57h
Did you get it right this time?
This theatre was built in 1939 by Mrs. Joshua Smith, a movie doyenne of Toronto, who was a Shakesperian actress, poet, film distributor and trade newspaper editor. This theatre was a partnership of B & F Theatres, an associated circuit of the Famous Players Canadian Corp. In the lobby of this theatre under carpet or whatever are footprints of some British movie stars that she was friends with!