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Originally Posted by Chronamut
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..
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People still love the theatre. Especially in Hamilton. We have so many art lovers. It's beautiful!
I think they would've still been successful today. At the time they were demolished, they probably couldn't afford to keep them in operation any longer.
If they were still in operation, I think we would see them do good business. More indie film showcases and performances. Just my opinion. Who really knows.
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