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robinco
robinco commented about Phoenix Theatre on Oct 26, 2011 at 7:04 pm

(incidentally, the James St. Feed Company is on the opposite side of the street, so you need to rotate that google image if you see the pub/restaurant)

robinco
robinco commented about Phoenix Theatre on Oct 26, 2011 at 7:03 pm

There’s a pretty good website about old Ottawa which has a photo of the Rialto (which became the Phoenix, which closed). It was at Bank and Waverly:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u2WcNSWdwE8/Sxck9XgR-fI/AAAAAAAACKI/Xkpj_MZCMgc/s1600-h/rialto.jpg

and this is what it looks like today, a vacant lot: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u2WcNSWdwE8/Sxckzbkc5oI/AAAAAAAACKA/tE97tq7yzIg/s400/PB290050.JPG

robinco
robinco commented about Phoenix Theatre on Jun 18, 2011 at 10:54 am

Well it is possible the Rialto was at a different location at one point but it was definitely on Bank Street when I was a kid.

robinco
robinco commented about Phoenix Theatre on Jun 15, 2009 at 10:14 am

My one vague memory of the Rat Hole was one Saturday morning in the 1960s, watching a sequence of Three Stooges movies, knee deep in garbage, and some kid in front of us turning around and spitting at us. We probably took him outside and gave him a lesson he’d never forgot, but that might be a dream sequence…

But this theatre should be down as the Rialto, not the Phoenix. Nobody of any merit should remember the Phoenix.