Saying goodbye to the Century Theater 1913-2010

Today marks a sad day in Hamilton history as one of the last vaudeville era theaters in Ontario is to be torn down. Originally built in 1913 & known as the Lyric this 2000 seat theater saw many vaudeville acts including the Marx brothers.The theater was remodeled twice once in 1922 and again in 1940. It became a single screen movie theater in the 40's when it was bought by 20th Century Theaters. & renamed the Century. Further remodeling came when ownership switched to Famous players in 1979. The theater closed in 1989 and has remain vacant since. recently, the roof collapsed and the building was set to be demolished. look for more footage and memories of the Theater soon.

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Entertainment

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• hamilton
• ontario
• canada
• vaudeville
• century theater
• lyric theater
• marx brothers
• history
• movies

[flagshipaudio]

Is the place still there?

[jimsupreme]

@flagshipaudio no, it was torn down. nothing has yet been done to the location however so, there are bricks still left over from the demolition. they still have yet to build anything on the site

[editmyass]

I'm glad this was taped....I remember watching movies here as a teenager....I remember the lobby and the red carpet vividly.

[dunbarGirl007]

Beautiful!

[theshatnerman4242]

thank you for sharing this wonderful footage.much apreciated

[jimsupreme]

@chomotherispoop it's already been taken down. it will soon become another parking lot.

[comicbookfanboy]

That's so sad ;'(

[katsujinken10]

that's a real shame. there's a beautiful old Art deco theatre in my home town which closed some years ago when the new Galaxy theatre opened. No one uses it for anything anymore and it's for sale for only 130 000 dollars! that's insane, my parents spent almost 300 000 on a stupid one bedroom condo. I'd buy that theatre just to live in if I had that money.