Paramount Theatre
Main St, Kentville, NS B4N 2M6, Canada,
Kentville,
NS
Main St, Kentville, NS B4N 2M6, Canada,
Kentville,
NS
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Previously operated by: Famous Players
Functions: Housing
Previous Names: Capitol Theatre
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This first opened as the Capitol Theatre and operated as early as the 1920s, but was destroyed by a fire in 1948. Following the fire, the Empire Theatre became the only movie house in Kentville until three years later, when the former site of the Capitol Theatre was rebuilt, and reopened later that year in 1951 as the Paramount Theatre, housing 746 seats and operated by Famous Players, who also operated the Empire. The Paramount Theatre closed for the final time in 1999.
In 2002, the Paramount Theatre building was purchased by Valley Gate Vineyard, which repurposed the space for ministry and later established a transitional housing program for young men.
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The Capitol was a new house in 1923. This item is from the November 10 issue of Moving Picture World that year: “K. Kelty, formerly manager of the Strand Theatre, Yarmouth, N. S., has been appointed manager of the Capitol Theatre, a new theatre at Kentville, N. S., owned by F. G. Spencer.”
Two theater projects for Kentville were mentioned in the January 16, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World: “Fine New House for Kentville. Kentville, N. S.-With a population of but 2,400, Kentville is to be as well supplied with high-class moving picture theaters as any town its size in the dominion. Clark and Hiltz, who are now running the Nickelette are building a new theater, that is to have a seating capacity of 900 people, and R. W. Seliz, proprietor of the Arena, a summer theater, has purchased land and will start work in May on a house of almost equal size.”
I’ve been unable to discover if both or either of these theaters got built, or anything about them if they were.