Roxy Theatre
320 20th Street W,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7M 0X2
320 20th Street W,
Saskatoon,
SK
S7M 0X2
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Reopened on September 30th, 2005 Article:
Roxy theatre reopening Fri, Sep 30, 2005 – 23 · Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Closed as Towne
Roxy grand opening ad
Roxy theatre opening Wed, Aug 27, 1930 – 7 · Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Became part of the Odeon-Morton chain on April 7th, 1965.
Roxy theatre takeover by Odeon-Morton Wed, Apr 7, 1965 – 8 · Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Nice theatre, rough part of town. Originally a single screen, they added a second during the Towne Cinema era. Originally they were called the Red and Blue theatres. In the 1970s they regularly showed matinees of The Man Called Flintstone, Hey There it’s Yogi Bear and Godzilla movies.
1930 and 1980 grand opening ads as Roxy and Towne in the photo section for this theatre.
Architect Max Blankstein’s middle initial was not E. His middle name was Zev. This page from the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada has a list of some of Blankstein’s designs, and it includes the Roxy. Blankstein’s office was in Winnipeg, quite some distance from Saskatoon.
I’ve found only a couple of period references to F. F. LeMaistre; one from 1915 listing him as a draftsman and one from 1939 listing him as an architect with offices at 112 Bryce Street in Winnipeg. I’ve been unable to discover anything about LeMaistre’s role in the Roxy project. However, I do see considerable resemblance between the Roxy and the Palace Theatre in Winnipeg, built in 1912 and expanded and remodeled in 1927-28, with Max Blankstein being both the original architect and the architect for the remodeling.
Thanks for the pictures. Playing May 1 1967 is “A COVENANT WITH DEATH”.
Pictures I took of Roxy in September of ‘09—>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azzaelea/tags/roxy/
Kind of a neat article in the local Saskatoon website about the Roxy. Sounds like a place worth visiting.
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Scroll down on this website for some great photographs of the Roxy Theatre:
http://saskatoonlive.com/
The Roxy opened on 29 Aug 1930 and was designed by Winnipeg architect, F F LeMaistre.It was also known as the Coronet and Towne cinema.The interior was in the style of a Spanish Villa with a dark blue ceiling with twinkling stars and the theatre also had two cloud machines.Several exterior photos appear at
www.scs.sk.ca/saskatoon100/COSdrivetour/77.htm
This theatre had been closed for ten years but has now been restored and it reopened on 30 Sep 2005.