Savoy Theatre Port Alberni
4717 Argyle Street,
Port Alberni,
BC
V9Y 1W2
4717 Argyle Street,
Port Alberni,
BC
V9Y 1W2
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According to this article in the Alberni Valley News, the Port Alberni branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association will be taking over management of the Paramount on October 1 and will be renaming the theatre as the Savoy Theatre:
CMHA taking over management of Alberni’s Landmark Cinema
As part of the change in management with Landmark pulling out of Port Alberni after running the Paramount (the soon-to-be Savoy) since August 1986, the new management is introducing a new website for the theatre:
Savoy Theatre Port Alberni
New photo in the photo section showing the new Landmark Cinemas signage, which was added in November 2019. As of that date, this theatre is now the Landmark Cinemas Paramount (which is now also the last theatre in the Landmark chain to bear the Paramount name).
New photos added in the photo section, including one of the Paramount in the 1960s from its Famous Players days.
The Paramount has had new luxury recliner seats installed to replace the previous seating as part of recent renovations that have basically turned the auditorium inside into just another black box, just like many of the newer theatres opened by Landmark and Cineplex (along with renovations of some of their older theatres) in recent times. With the addition of the new seats, seating has been drastically reduced (based on a seat count in the picture below, according to this Facebook post) to 174 seats.
Stage view of new recliner seating at the Paramount Theatre Port Alberni
The Februay 2, 1952, issue of Boxoffice Magazine had a brief item saying that this theater had opened recently. The manager was named Harold Warren, and the theater was being operated in partnership with Famous Players Canadian.