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Originally Posted by hamilton23
Hopefully Westdale can be restored in a classy way. Would be nice for the city and that area. I always liked that theatre.
Sucks how those other large venues went to crap. I think it shows the economic disparity Hamilton was in at the time, considering they couldn't restore them.
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Film was rapidly making the opera stages obsolete, and they were being converted to single screen film screens, and then people were pulling out of the downtown as big malls and complexes opened and people suburbanized. The classy downtown got replaced with ghettos and homeless people and crackheads, and they didn't get the influx of people they needed to keep them afloat. Back in the day that was all people had for entertainment.
It would be even worse now because now people have their mobile devices to entertain themselves.
Westdale is going to be restored to back how it was when it first opened in the 1900s - they are doing tests to see if they can come up with original traces of the colour, as all the photos of its heyday are of course in black and white..