Wrong theatre. This is the Bloor Theatre that later became Lee’s Palace nightclub (and still is today), not the Bloor Theatre that became what is now the Hot Docs Cinema.
That’s the original Cinema de Paris shown above (next to the Palace Theatre), not the one documented in this article (located next to Dunn’s Delicatessen further up the street).
The above post by llgs is correct. A Google street view from November 2020 shows a vacant lot now where the Champlain once stood, so this theatre should be set to Demolished.
The Uptown Cinema Centre has since been reopened a few years back under the ownership of Red Deer Polytechnic and is now known as the Welikoklad Event Centre; one of the cinemas is still used for showing movies, while the rest of the building has been renovated for performing arts space and an art gallery. Here is the website:
Looking at this auditorium design and the wall decorations, I actually prefer this over the current trend of plain black boxes now being used by Cineplex and Landmark.
As indicated above by Mike Rivest, this was originally with 20th Century Theatres as the Twin Drive-In, then later went to Famous Players as the Famous 4 Drive-In after Famous Players absorbed 20th Century’s operations.
As noted above by Spectrum (and confirmed by the Google Maps street view), this theatre should be set to Demolished. The former theatre site is now a parking lot for the nearby CIBC bank.
The photo shown above is not the Shaw/Rickshaw Theatre, which is on East Hastings. That’s actually the Golden Harvest Cinema (now the Imperial Cinema) on Main Street in the photo.
As part of the renovations, I’m betting that the existing seating will probably be replaced by luxury recliners, which will mean a 60% reduction in the amount of seating in the complex.
The seating numbers look and sound a lot like the Cineplexes of the Garth Drabinsky era, though the modern numbers have a lot to do with the fact that they’re using luxury recliners in those theatres now. If they still used traditional seating, the seating total for this theatre would more likely be between 800 and 900 seats.
Landmark closed the Centre Cinema at the end of May as the result of the pandemic, but Magic Lantern Theatres has bought the Centre and will reopen it by the end of October (story in link below):
The Totem Theatre was located at 200 3rd Avenue West and its postal code was V8J 1L1. It was also a Famous Players theatre throughout its existence (as noted in the article above) and opened on April 12, 1951.
A newspaper article from the April 13, 1951 edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News on the opening of the Totem the previous night is now uploaded to the photo section. The opening night feature was the 1951 Gene Tierney film The Mating Season. More articles announcing the opening of the Totem have also been added to the photo section, including the opening night ad. In the accompanying article, it mentions that the Totem had 640 seats and was prominently decorated with Haida artwork in the lobby and auditorium.
Wrong theatre. This is the Bloor Theatre that later became Lee’s Palace nightclub (and still is today), not the Bloor Theatre that became what is now the Hot Docs Cinema.
That’s the original Cinema de Paris shown above (next to the Palace Theatre), not the one documented in this article (located next to Dunn’s Delicatessen further up the street).
The above post by llgs is correct. A Google street view from November 2020 shows a vacant lot now where the Champlain once stood, so this theatre should be set to Demolished.
The picture shown above is actually the Capitol Theatre in London, Ontario, not the one in Kingston.
The Uptown Cinema Centre has since been reopened a few years back under the ownership of Red Deer Polytechnic and is now known as the Welikoklad Event Centre; one of the cinemas is still used for showing movies, while the rest of the building has been renovated for performing arts space and an art gallery. Here is the website:
Welikoklad Event Centre
I don’t know, I think that’d be up to Cineplex to decide.
This theatre should now be set to Demolished. A recent Google street view from November 2021 shows only the steel framework of the Humber now left.
Wrong theatre in this ad. That’s for what was then the Bloor Eden Theatre (now the Hot Docs Cinema), not the Eve.
The ad above does not include the Towne Cinema, but it has the Towne & Countrye, a different theatre in another part of Toronto.
Looking at this auditorium design and the wall decorations, I actually prefer this over the current trend of plain black boxes now being used by Cineplex and Landmark.
New photo of the reopened Center Cinema added in the photo section.
The Center Cinema is now officially back up and running:
Magic Lantern Theatres Center Cinema page
As indicated above by Mike Rivest, this was originally with 20th Century Theatres as the Twin Drive-In, then later went to Famous Players as the Famous 4 Drive-In after Famous Players absorbed 20th Century’s operations.
As noted above by Spectrum (and confirmed by the Google Maps street view), this theatre should be set to Demolished. The former theatre site is now a parking lot for the nearby CIBC bank.
Now just another luxury recliner-seated black box under Landmark.
The photo shown above is not the Shaw/Rickshaw Theatre, which is on East Hastings. That’s actually the Golden Harvest Cinema (now the Imperial Cinema) on Main Street in the photo.
Wasn’t the B&L chain a Famous Players operating partner at one point?
As part of the renovations, I’m betting that the existing seating will probably be replaced by luxury recliners, which will mean a 60% reduction in the amount of seating in the complex.
The seating numbers look and sound a lot like the Cineplexes of the Garth Drabinsky era, though the modern numbers have a lot to do with the fact that they’re using luxury recliners in those theatres now. If they still used traditional seating, the seating total for this theatre would more likely be between 800 and 900 seats.
According to the Landmark website, the Qwanlin Twin Cinemas has closed permanently as of September 1.
According to the Landmark website, the Yukon Cinema Centre has closed permanently as of September 1.
The Tower is now under the ownership of Magic Lantern Theatres:
Rainbow Cinemas & Magic Lantern Theatres
Landmark closed the Centre Cinema at the end of May as the result of the pandemic, but Magic Lantern Theatres has bought the Centre and will reopen it by the end of October (story in link below):
Dawson Creek movie theatre preparing to reopen
The Totem Theatre was located at 200 3rd Avenue West and its postal code was V8J 1L1. It was also a Famous Players theatre throughout its existence (as noted in the article above) and opened on April 12, 1951.
A newspaper article from the April 13, 1951 edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News on the opening of the Totem the previous night is now uploaded to the photo section. The opening night feature was the 1951 Gene Tierney film The Mating Season. More articles announcing the opening of the Totem have also been added to the photo section, including the opening night ad. In the accompanying article, it mentions that the Totem had 640 seats and was prominently decorated with Haida artwork in the lobby and auditorium.
Based on the size of the building, probably not a very big theatre either - maybe no more than 30 seats at most.