[Craic] The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace, DVD

Mon Sep 12 17:56:12 PDT 2022

Rev. Fr. John Moss, (whose mother a descendent of The Shea Cinema Family, USA),
While studying at U of T in the 40’s, John played the theatre organ for cinema patrons, at Sheas Theatre, Toronto, while they waited for the films to begin; ( Nathan Philips Square). 

John played Fats Waller tunes on the piano,  among other ‘period pieces’ for us. 
A priest with toronto diocese, he was appointed as ‘exorcist’ for many years.
 A very kind man.

from iPhone

> On Sep 12, 2022, at 3:03 PM, Rob and Nora Anderson via craic <craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> David,
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> That blank wall on the Yonge St. facade of the Easton’s Centre continues to leave its nasty legacy of gashing the downtown in half between Dundas and Queen.  Still an open wound on Yonge St.  Sheer crassness and stupidity!  Every condo that is built along the major streets just gives us more of the colourless same…BMO, TD, Shopper’s.
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> I will certainly look forward to hearing your first person stories of that era when Toronto started going into hyper mode.  I will write you an email if ever I plan to get to Toronto for Saturday Craic.
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> Bob
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> David Walsh
> david at dwalsh.ca
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> Bob – your memories take me back to the 1970’s when I was in commercial real estate with Royal Lepage and then left to start my own company with a partner – we worked mainly on Yonge Street. Our first tenant was Bernie Finklestein who rented a small house on Scollard St. We mainly worked on Yonge Street and redeveloped several properties, including the former Edison Hotel – we eventually sold it – the guy we sold it to had that historic building burned down so he could apply for a high-rise –City Hall was upset and Ryerson wanted to buy it from him, but it is currently a flea market. The Edison  was next door to Le Coq d’Or Tavern another famous venue (Ronnie Hawkins) – see https://www.torontojourney416.com/le-coq-dor-tavern/  and down the street was the Hardrock Café. In those years I was president of the Downtown Business Council, and our main area of interest was Yonge Street – see attached pages from 3 1970’s newsletters.
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> I am attaching a few photos of Yonge Street from that era. One of our battles was with Eaton’s and Simpson’s over their plans to create a blank wall on their Yonge St façade so they could suck all the shoppers off Yonge St. into their new Eaton Centre
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> David
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> On Sep 11, 2022, at 11:17 PM, Rob and Nora Anderson via craic <craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> Gentlemen,
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> After reading the thoroughly entertains book, “An Empire of Their Own, How the Jews Invented Hollywood,” I found at our local public library this excellent DVD on the great movie palaces of NYC, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.  Actually, the Rochester of my youth had the most opulent movie palace between NYC and Chicago.  YouTube has a few photos.  Downtown danced with the lights of several major beauties, including the RKO Palace.  Every neighbourhood had its own as well.  Mine was The Liberty.  
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> Toronto in mid 60’s still had some great ones too as we have talked about at Craic. I forget the name of the one on Yonge Street with the long red carpet.  I think it was The Loew’s.  By the time I got to the city in 1965, the remaining palaces, Loew’s, University, Odeon and Eglinton, hung in with the likes of the re-release of Gone With the Wind and blockbusters such as The Great Escape, Patton and The Sound of Music.  Wow, have people today given up a lot when they don’t even want to go out to buy groceries!  Video games, social media, Netflix, NFL, marijuana and Uber Eats headline the billing, but these entertainments can’t replace the city lights and the vibe that went with downtown.
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> How fortunate we were to have enjoyed the era of the cinemas, trains, department stores, churches, old ball parks, record stores and music venues.  Twenty years from now, will middle aged people be recalling with fond memories the bygone era of universities, dorms and student pubs?   Churches gone to condos every one, …read Philip Larkin’s poem, “Church Going.” Maybe even downtowns, Petula!
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> Honest Ed, aka Bob Anderson
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