A heartbreaking shame

**SD-50** · November 3rd, 2009, 06:55 PM

This video shows my all time favorite movie theater in Montreal. As a teenager spent many a weekend hanging out with friends and on dates. Fell on hard times in the nineties thanks to the multi-plex theater. Watch the video to at least the halfway mark.
Gustavo

YouTube - Urban Exploration: Cinema 5 - Montreal / NDG

**Audio_by_Goodwill** · November 3rd, 2009, 08:42 PM

Wow, it looks like it was quite the place. Is it open to the elements? How could it be deteriorating so fast? It looks like it's been sitting a lot longer than the the mid-90's.

**aeyb701** · November 3rd, 2009, 09:17 PM

..agreed: looks like it's from some post-apocalyptic flick like Planet of the Apes. Perhaps the piles of dirt in the chairs and dust on those nice TAR-FILLED horns is from a jack-hammer job?
Jon a.

**SD-50** · November 3rd, 2009, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Audio_by_Goodwill

Wow, it looks like it was quite the place. Is it open to the elements? How could it be deteriorating so fast? It looks like it's been sitting a lot longer than the the mid-90's.

You're right, now that I thought about it, mid to late eighties was about the time when the theater began to have problems staying in business. It open and closed under different management several times before finally shutting down for good about '91, '92. Over the last several years there has been talk by community groups and the town to restore the building to it's former status, but all has failed due to a lack of funds.
Cheers

**LICORNE** · November 9th, 2009, 08:21 PM

I remember this theater . It was the place to go for a quick start to a relationship.
This will hurt even more . It was the only theater with a fold up curtain.Very Expensive.

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**oface1** · November 9th, 2009, 08:28 PM

Are these speakers still there that as in the video or photographs?

Who would you contact to go get them if you were in the area?

If I was local , I would be trying to get some contact info, or go rouge........

-chris

**bfish** · November 9th, 2009, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by LICORNE

...It was the place to go for a quick start to a relationship......

There used to be an Adult Cinema in Kansas City that was good for that too...

**bfish** · November 9th, 2009, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by aeyb701

..,Perhaps the piles of dirt in the chairs and dust on those nice TAR-FILLED horns...

Judging by the appearance of the building materials and pipe insulation, a whole bunch of that "dust" is most likely asbestos... not a place one would want to hang out in now.

**Panomaniac** · November 9th, 2009, 10:03 PM

Just wear a dust mask. Those tar filled horns should not be lost! They sure don't make them like that anymore.

"Heaven rest us
I'm not asbestos"

**SD-50** · November 9th, 2009, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by oface1

Are these speakers still there that as in the video or photographs?

Who would you contact to go get them if you were in the area?

If I was local , I would be trying to get some contact info, or go rouge........
-chris

That video was taken a year ago and the speakers were still there after almost two decades, very tempted to drop by and find out. Short distance from my place of work, a local community center still has an office in the building, it might be worth dropping in to see if they are still there and worth saving if they can be had cheap. Already have a pair of A7-500, would make for a very cramped space.
Cheers