Odeon Theatre
1473 Queen Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M6R 1A6
1473 Queen Street West,
Toronto,
ON
M6R 1A6
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: 20th Century Theaters
Previous Names: Regal Theatre
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Opened as the Odeon Theatre in 1914. It was never a part of the Odeon (Canada) circuit of theaters. It opened well prior to the formation of that circuit and was operated by 20th Century Theatres. It was last operated as the Regal Theatre which closed in 1980.
A supermarket, with apartments above, now stands on the site.
Contributed by
Christopher Walczak
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Recent comments (view all 14 comments)
Tim, I am going to request that the moderators change the entry for this page to “Odeon Theater” and create a new page entry for the Odeon Lakeshore (aka Biltmore New Toronto) and that they move move Chuck 1231’s picture link to the new page.
Perfect. Now if they could only change the Odeon Danforth back to “single screen”.
They have since corrected that as well.
I beleive that this is the same photo that CWalczak posted on June 4 2008 and unfortunately the link no longer works.
A lot of the links to the “City of Toronto Archives” no longer work.
http://i46.tinypic.com/21d1i77.jpg
Yes, thanks; that is the picture. The Toronto Archives has a new numbering system and I too have been updating links as I find broken ones. However, as I noted in the original comment, I do not think it is a picture of the Odeon that is the subject of this particular listing based on the address that can been seen, and that building looks far too small to have seated nearly 800 people.
I research buildings and the Odeon Theatre in the City Archives photograph was 1558 Queen St. W. and first appeared in the Toronto City Directory in 1915 (so it was built in 1914). The building is still there and is now Harvest Fresh Farms grocery store.
Hey guys, here’s a photo of the Odeon located at 1473 Queen St. W when it was known as the Regal: http://wp.me/pYW3L-jO
And here it is as the Odeon: http://tinyurl.com/28xvsdj
There is an interior photo of the Odeon’s interior on this webpage (scroll down to see it): View link
It seems ironic that a theatre called the Odeon, which one would think would naturally be part of the Odeon circuit (even though this one wasn’t), instead was associated with a circuit (i.e. 20th Century Theatres) that had ties to the Odeon Circuit’s main rival Famous Players.