Dunbar Theatre
4555 Dunbar Street,
Vancouver,
BC
V6S
4555 Dunbar Street,
Vancouver,
BC
V6S
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Functions: Movies (First Run)
Styles: Art Deco
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
604.222.2991
Manager:
604.222.2991
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News About This Theater
- Dec 9, 2012 — Happy 50th, “Lawrence of Arabia”
The Dunbar Theatre has been operating in Vancouver since at least 1941. It remains open as a single screen.
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Here’s a nice article about the Dunbar Theatre from DunbarLife Magazine: “The Dunbar Theatre: A Vancouver Treasure” http://www.dunbarlife.com/blog/?p=390
A photo from the City of Vancouver archives probably shortly before the theatre’s opening: View link
No website. Movie showtimes are listed on their Facebook page.
This opened in 1935 and closed in 1987 in favor of the Granville 7 downtown. It reopened along with the Plaza (Odeon) and the Varsity by Famous Players on March 18th, 1988.
Dunbar, Plaza, and Varsity reopenings Fri, Mar 18, 1988 – 75 · The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com
The Dunbar Theatre opened its doors on November 22, 1935 with George Burns in “Times Square Lady” and Robert Taylor in “Here Comes Cookie” along with a few unnamed shorts, featuring installations of Western Electric Wide-Range Sound. It was later operated by Odeon Theatres Canada and later Cineplex Odeon before closing on June 18, 1987 with “The Believers”. Famous Players took over the Dunbar afterward and reopened on March 18, 1988 with “Three Men And A Baby”.