Columbia Theatre
530 Columbia Street,
New Westminster,
BC
V3L 1B1
530 Columbia Street,
New Westminster,
BC
V3L 1B1
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This renovated heritage theatre has reclaimed its original name and it is now called the Columbia. While Lafflines Comedy Club is thriving with the flexibility of two venues, the Columbia is now the talk of the town with live music concerts, corporate events, community fundraiser events and weddings. Please visit www.theColumbia.ca or Facebook/530columbia or Youtube channel “530columbia”
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Was it never demolished? News reports all say that Lafflines comedy club has been renovating the old Burr Theatre and is moving in this spring.
Here is a photo of the Columbia Theater.
This link has a number of photos of the Raymond Burr Theater. According to the information at that link, this theater is not only closed, it is being demolished.
Another photo of the Burr Theater can be seen here.
The ‘highlights’ have now been removed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Maybe I’m the only one that noticed this but there are two highlighted links in the description above that will return a 404 error when you click on them. The words “hanging planters” and “wrought-iron” are highlighted.
This is a more recent photo of the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Centre.
Here is a recent photo of the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Centre.
Architects: Fred Laughton Townley and Robert Michael Matheson.
Down the street a block is what was New Westminster’s other prime movie experience, the Paramount. Although I have no info on its history, I do recall that the inside was equal to the Columbia (Burr Theatre), as was the movie-going experience.
It’s still standing, but the insides were massively redesigned (tho apparently not gutted) to suit its current format, that of a strip club.
In my mind, the Paramount was a nicer theatre than the Columbia.