Parkland Cinema
215 Main Street S.,
Dauphin,
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R7N 1K5
215 Main Street S.,
Dauphin,
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R7N 1K5
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The Internet gives the address of houses called the Dauphin Theatre and Dauphin Cinema as well as the Parkland Cinema as 215 Main St. S., but Parkland appears to have been the last name it operated under.
A book called Dauphin Valley Spans the Years (very large PDF here), published in 1970, gives some of this theater’s history. It was long called the Gay Theatre, but was renovated and reopened as the New Dauphin Theatre in 1965. An earlier Dauphin Theatre opened on North Main Street in 1921, but was gutted by a fire on May 24, 1964, and subsequently demolished.
The Gay Theatre was quite old at the time it became the New Dauphin. This photo of Main Street with the Gay Theatre at left is dated 1910, though I don’t know if that is accurate. The Gay was certainly in operation by 1918, when historic documents indicate that it was showing the popular WWI propaganda film The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin.
The book notes that Dauphin had two other movie theaters operating in the 1910s: the Lyceum, on Main Street, and the Star, on Front Street.
Demolished by the time the Googlemobile passed it by.