A recently-added feature to the site is the Great Toronto Theatres Map, highlighting all the movie houses we’ve profiled or mentioned since 2007. There’s plenty more to come!
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I hope you get to the ones in Scarborough – at the Elaine Plaza and Morningside Mall. Pluss wasn’t there one further up Kingston Rd called The Birchmount?
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I lived on the Danforth from 1940 – 1952, Theatres I remember; Cameo-Pape & Mortimer: Palace – Danforth & Pape: Odeon-Danforth and Pape: Ace-Danforth & Gough: Granada-Danforth west of Logan: Prince of Wales- Danforth & Woodbine
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Nancy,
Thanks for commenting. We’ll be featuring the Palace on this site very soon!
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Says here-the Bedford/ Park Theatre(Yonge and Fairlawn) closed in 1981……(thats WRONG….it closed in summer 1983(my wife and I saw the movie War Games(1983)(withMatthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy) at the Park(we won tickets toi see it(it was 6 weeks before the Park Theatre closed(in 1983)……(I very definitely remember that!)
Keep up the good work-this is an excellent site….
(and out on Roncesvalles-the Brighton Theatre(just north of Queen W(and now a convenience store) opened in 1954(at a time when a lot of Toronto movie theatres were CLOSING(thanks largely to television) and closed around 1983(but the Brighton sign would last until around 2000(when it was finally removed-17 years after the Brighton closed….)
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One more for you- the Vaughan Theatre(St Clair West-Vaughan Rd( northwest corner)-opened around 1950-closed around 1980(demolished-replaces by a coffeeshop(and a roti restaurant))…..
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I really very highly recommend John Seberts excellent book on Toronto neighborhood movie theatres(nabes)(published around 2000)(I have that book-its EXCELLENT……(at last report John Sebert lived in Port Hope ON(about 90 miles east of Toronto(if hes still alive-thats where he can be located)……
I also am a member of an excellent website called Cinema Treasures(www.cinematreasures.com) (which includes Toronto movie threates shown here(on Silent Toronto)….
I really recommend (very highly both of the above……)
Enjoy!
(I used to go the the Allenby( when it was the Roxy)(at Danforth and Greenwood(125 Danforth Ave(south side)-I was a regular there from 1973 onwards(I last went there in 1980…)(But a LOT of times-in between 1973-1980)(very memorably!)(when you could ss several great films for 99cents)(I got a film education-going there…)(an excellent one…)……..
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