Strand Theater
W. Georgia Street and Granville Street,
Vancouver,
BC
V6Z
W. Georgia Street and Granville Street,
Vancouver,
BC
V6Z
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Click on link to see ads, articles, and pictures of the Strand Theatre Please do not copy to this site.
Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website about the Strand.
http://www.pstos.org/instruments/bc/vancouver/allen.htm
Sorry, but there were two Scott’s cafes. The one that existed on Granville Street until the 70s,and its 1970s replacement on the south side of the 500 block of West Georgia between Seymour and Richards.
Proof:This 1981 photo which clearly shows the second Scott’s Cafe east of Seymour.
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/700-seymour-street-east-side https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/3/8/384764/87cf2205-ddc4-4724-854d-973cf3ce400e-A73609.jpg
As I said before, it was this second Scott’s that became a White Spot.
There was never a White Spot on the site of the Strand Theatre, which occupied the southwest corner of Georgia and Seymour. This corner is now occupied by the Scotia Tower.
Hope this helps ;)
Grand opening ad as Allen
Allen Theatre opening Sun, Aug 15, 1920 – 21 · The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Sorry but Scott’s Cafe was located at 722 Granville street (Reference: Vancouver Public Library) next to Birks Jewellers. And the White Spot took up a portion of the site on Georgia Street where the Strand theatre originally was. I enjoyed several films at the Strand and I became engaged in Scott’s. Then we went next door to Birks to purchase my engagement ring. Hope this helps.
The (now demolished) White Spot was on the 500 block of W. Georgia, not the site of the Strand.
That White Spot was once “Scott’s Cafe” into the early ‘80s
Does anyone know the make of organ
An exterior view of the Strand from 1948: View link
Interior photo from the City of Vancouver Archives: View link
An article titled “Some Problems in Theatre Construction” in the July, 1921, issue of the Canadian journal Construction is illustrated by photos of the Allen Theatre in Vancouver. The facade, entrance, foyer, mezzanine, balcony, and auditorium are all depicted. Judging from the photos, I’d consider the architectural style to be predominantly Adamesque rather than Greek Revival.
The article is available online from the Internet Archive (for those whose browsers might not be compatible with that format, you can select other formats from this page.) Navigating the Internet Archive’s online reader can be tricky, until you get used to it, which is why I usually link to the easier-to-use Google Books when they both have the item available, even though Internet Archive provides far better page scans.