PSTOS - Allen (Strand) Theatre, Vancouver B.C.

Allen (Strand) Theatre - / Kimball
Vancouver, B.C.
600 West Georgia St.

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The Allen Theatre opened in August 1920. The theatre closed in 1923 and reopened as the Strand.

There was an earlier Strand Theatre located at 36 W. Hastings Street.

Except as noted, the following images of the Allen Theatre taken near the time of its opening in August 1920 are courtesy Construction: A Journal for the Architectural Engineering and Contracting Interests of Canada, Vol XIV, No 1, January 1921

Allen Theatre, c.1920

c.1921. Image courtesy City of Vancouver Archives, public domain.

According to available records, there are two organs associated with the Strand Theatre:

2/12 Warren & Sons installed 1914 (Bill Bunch/Eugene Nye records)

Kimball of unknown size, install date unknown (Junchen opus lists)

The install date of 1914 for the Warren & Sons organ is most likely associated with the prior Strand Theatre at 36 W. Hastings.

Current status of either of these instruments is unknown.

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View from the stage, c.1920. Image courtesy Vancouver Public Library, public domain.

Balcony seating, c.1920.

Promenade, c.1920

Mezzanine, c.1920

Mezzanine, c.1920. Image courtesy Vancouver Public Library, public domain.

View of the proscenium and stage, c.1920

The theatrre reopened as the Strand Theatre in 1923.

c.1920s

c.1924. Image courtesy City of Vancouver Archives, public domain.

Georgia St. at night, c.1937. Image courtesy City of Vancouver Archives, public domain.

c.1948. Image courtesy City of Vancouver Archives, public domain.

c.1973. Image courtesy City of Vancouver Archives, public domain.

The Strand Theatre and adjacent Birks Building were demolished in 1973 to make way for the new Vancouver Centre project.