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njwightupclose: This gorgeous building is only a 10 minute walk from where I love and so often I pass by without really taking in it’s beauty. Abandoned now for 20 years, Montreal’s old Empress theatre was the only theatre in Canada built in the Egyption style. Built in 1927 it was a vaudevill theatre for burlesque and first-run movies. In 1962 it was transformed into a dinner theatre, which had only brief few years of success. As film became more prominent, it was converted to a two-tiered Cinema V and Salle Hermes art-movie cinemas and later became a repertory cinema in 1975, which was taken over by the Famous Players chain in 1988. In 1992 a fire caused damage to the theater resulting in its permanent closure. It now sits empty, with fencing around the perimeter–urging someone to turn her into her glorious self.

njwightupclose:

This gorgeous building is only a 10 minute walk from where I love and so often I pass by without really taking in it’s beauty. Abandoned now for 20 years, Montreal’s old Empress theatre was the only theatre in Canada built in the Egyption style. Built in 1927 it was a vaudevill theatre for burlesque and first-run movies. In 1962 it was transformed into a dinner theatre, which had only brief few years of success. As film became more prominent, it was converted to a two-tiered Cinema V and Salle Hermes art-movie cinemas and later became a repertory cinema in 1975, which was taken over by the Famous Players chain in 1988. In 1992 a fire caused damage to the theater resulting in its permanent closure. It now sits empty, with fencing around the perimeter–urging someone to turn her into her glorious self.

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