Jun., 2017: Exterior of Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre opened in Woodbridge on December 22, 1950, at the intersection of Highway 7 and Eighth Avenue (now Kipling). The first film shown was "Tea for Two" starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Modelled after a Quonset hut, a lightweight prefabricated steel structure used as a storage facility by the US military during WWII, it had a seating capacity of approximately 500 and was operated by Odeon Theatres before it closed in January, 1961. No use was made of the property until the fall of 1966, when it was used by the Woodbridge Auction Centre Ltd. as a car sales arena and then in 1968 as a Canadian Tire. The building burned down in April, 1977. This image depicting the exterior of the Roxy Theatre was taken in 1950 by the Ontario Treasury Department, Motion Picture Censorship Theatre Inspection Branch.
City of Vaughan Archives: M010.10
Jun., 2017: Exterior of Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre opened in Woodbridge on December 22, 1950, at the intersection of Highway 7 and Eighth Avenue (now Kipling). The first film shown was "Tea for Two" starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Modelled after a Quonset hut, a lightweight prefabricated steel structure used as a storage facility by the US military during WWII, it had a seating capacity of approximately 500 and was operated by Odeon Theatres before it closed in January, 1961. No use was made of the property until the fall of 1966, when it was used by the Woodbridge Auction Centre Ltd. as a car sales arena and then in 1968 as a Canadian Tire. The building burned down in April, 1977. This image depicting the exterior of the Roxy Theatre was taken in 1950 by the Ontario Treasury Department, Motion Picture Censorship Theatre Inspection Branch.
City of Vaughan Archives: M010.10