Where was Southland Cinema, apparently located at Southland & MacLeod? Looking at the aerial maps of the time, I don't see an obvious cinema-like building, unless it was just a dinky thing?
Also where was the Southcentre cinema located in the mall?
Where was Southland Cinema, apparently located at Southland & MacLeod? Looking at the aerial maps of the time, I don't see an obvious cinema-like building, unless it was just a dinky thing?
Also where was the Southcentre cinema located in the mall?
Southland was a smaller cinema that played slightly older films at discount prices. It only had a few screens, and they were smaller ones. I believe it was attached to an office building of some kind. Probably all just office space.
The Southcentre theatre is apparently now the Crate and Barrel.
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Where was Southland Cinema, apparently located at Southland & MacLeod? Looking at the aerial maps of the time, I don't see an obvious cinema-like building, unless it was just a dinky thing?
Also where was the Southcentre cinema located in the mall?
Southland cinema was at the base of one of the office buildings on the south side of Macleod, I believe.
The theater in Southcentre was where Crate and Barrel and Craft are now.
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Southland was in this building on Southport Road: https://goo.gl/maps/fhciKNuSyM5YgLCB7 It was in the rectangular part of the building on the west side where Go Go Golf is now.
It was a decent-sized theatre for the era it was built. Much better than the tiny screens at Esso Plaza and Marlborough Mall.
For a long time, it was the only Cineplex theatre south of downtown. Until Cineplex bought Famous Players in the early 2000s, movies only played in one chain or the other depending on their studio. So, if a movie was only playing at a Cineplex theatre and you lived in the south, Southland was pretty much your only option.
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Was there a cinema in Chinatown? I remember going on a "I didn't know it was a date" with a girl and watching a Chinese movie, which I swear was in Chinatown.
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Was there a cinema in Chinatown? I remember going on a "I didn't know it was a date" with a girl and watching a Chinese movie, which I swear was in Chinatown.
Like back in the 80’s? I want to say there was; I have a distinct memory of getting dragged to a Chinese opera as a kid, and I believe there was a stage with seating where that would have occurred (that could have easily accommodated a screen to show movies).
Want to say it was somewhere in that strip of buildings on the northern side of 2 Ave SW (between centre street and 1 street sw)? Or maybe I’m misremembering…
Southland was in this building on Southport Road: https://goo.gl/maps/fhciKNuSyM5YgLCB7 It was in the rectangular part of the building on the west side where Go Go Golf is now.
It was a decent-sized theatre for the era it was built. Much better than the tiny screens at Esso Plaza and Marlborough Mall.
For a long time, it was the only Cineplex theatre south of downtown. Until Cineplex bought Famous Players in the early 2000s, movies only played in one chain or the other depending on their studio. So, if a movie was only playing at a Cineplex theatre and you lived in the south, Southland was pretty much your only option.
I can't even imagine a theatre in Esso Plaza. Was it in the foodcourt? Or below?
Southland was in this building on Southport Road: https://goo.gl/maps/fhciKNuSyM5YgLCB7 It was in the rectangular part of the building on the west side where Go Go Golf is now.
It was a decent-sized theatre for the era it was built. Much better than the tiny screens at Esso Plaza and Marlborough Mall.
For a long time, it was the only Cineplex theatre south of downtown. Until Cineplex bought Famous Players in the early 2000s, movies only played in one chain or the other depending on their studio. So, if a movie was only playing at a Cineplex theatre and you lived in the south, Southland was pretty much your only option.
I can't even imagine a theatre in Esso Plaza. Was it in the foodcourt? Or below?
Second floor. Where the pharmacy is. The hallway to the +15 was where the entrance was. Where the flower shop is now was an arcade.
I probably don't have the dimensions correct so where the stationary store (with the excellent selection of Moleskins!) is now could have been the arcade.
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Like back in the 80’s? I want to say there was; I have a distinct memory of getting dragged to a Chinese opera as a kid, and I believe there was a stage with seating where that would have occurred (that could have easily accommodated a screen to show movies).
Want to say it was somewhere in that strip of buildings on the northern side of 2 Ave SW (between centre street and 1 street sw)? Or maybe I’m misremembering…
This would have been 1994 or 1995.
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The old-style Earls with the fake parrots hanging from the ceiling.
It wasn't right beside the theatre, was it? I thought it was on the other side of the building. Where the closed Sushi place and children's dentist are here: https://goo.gl/maps/t1ePqLBFGpaQM6zWA
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