Roxy Theatre
6 Mill Street E.,
Acton,
ON
L7J 1G9
6 Mill Street E.,
Acton,
ON
L7J 1G9
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When it opened it was strictly a movie house and only had a small platform in front of the screen. It was a quonset hut identical to the ones in Brampton Woodbridge Cooksville and Unionville
It is amazing how many theatres are named ROXY in imitation of the once famous name of the New York City panjandrum of the movie palace: Samual Lionel Rothapfel = “Roxy”. His namesake was the famous ROXY THEATRE in NYC, which outlasted him by only 25 years when it was demolished in 1960. The whole story is in that landmark book “The Best Remaining Seats: The Story of the Golden Age of the Movie Palace” by the late Ben M. Hall in 1961. Various editions of it are sometimes available from www.Amazon.com, but only the first edition contains the color plates.