More Details on the Uptown Theatre Collapse

posted by Patrick Crowley on December 9, 2003 at 6:27 am

TORONTO, CANADA — According to Yahoo News, yesterday’s collapse of the Uptown Theatre has left one person dead and 14 others injured. As many of you know, the accident comes during the midst of a planned demolition of the theater to make way for an apartment complex.

“The whole thing just came down like a rocket,” said witness Harry Lesik, 65. “It just came down like a ton of bricks.”

Here’s a quick roundup of the most recent reports (including television coverage from local Toronto TV stations):

News Articles
• Man killed as Uptown collapses
• Building collapse claims life
• Uptown Theatre Collapses
• Toronto theatre collapses, 1 dead
• Uptown Theatre collapses (eyewitness account)
• Trapped student rescued after theater collapse
• Crane cut beams just before collapse: witness
• The history of Toronto’s Uptown Theatre

Video (via Windows Media)
• CTV News: On questions that surround the collapse
• CFTO Toronto: On earlier concerns about the demolition
• CFTO Toronto: Interviews with people who escaped the disaster
• CFTO Toronto: Details of the demolition site

Photographs (before and after the collapse)
• Aerial pics of the collapse (taken by an Uptown neighbor)
• Yahoo! News Uptown slideshow
• A few shots of the Uptown (pre-collapse)

Memories from Uptown patrons
• uptown girl (sorry)
• End of the Uptown

Previous Cinema Treasures reports on the Uptown
• Last Days Of The Uptown
• Toronto’s Uptown Theater Closes Forever

Theaters in this post

• Uptown Theatre