Capitol Cinema (City of Ottawa, Ontario)
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Ottawa Municipal Road \31/ - Bank Street
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Opened on November 8, 1920, later demolished in 1970.
Designed by famed theatre-architect Thomas W. Lamb, the 2,580-seat Capitol Cinema was considered to be among the finest movie palaces in North America and was the largest movie theater ever built in Ottawa.
Its stage hosted, among others, Nelson Eddy, Ethel Barrymore, John Gielgud, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Redgrave, Victor Borge, Pearl Bailey, Nat King Cole, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, the Metropolitan Opera Company, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Ravi Shankar.
Designed by famed theatre-architect Thomas W. Lamb, the 2,580-seat Capitol Cinema was considered to be among the finest movie palaces in North America and was the largest movie theater ever built in Ottawa.
Its stage hosted, among others, Nelson Eddy, Ethel Barrymore, John Gielgud, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Redgrave, Victor Borge, Pearl Bailey, Nat King Cole, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, the Metropolitan Opera Company, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Ravi Shankar.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Cinema_(Ottawa)
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Coordinates: 45°25'12"N 75°42'3"W
- Abandoned Runway 10 km
- Lac De L'Argile Ski Area 48 km
- Lac Carling Ski Center 98 km
- Centre de Ski Bellevue 125 km
- Ciné-Parc Laval 151 km
- Cartierville Airport 154 km
- Golf le Challenger 154 km
- Canadair Plant 2 155 km
- Former Turcot sorting yards 162 km
- Les bassins du nouveaux havre 167 km
- Downtown 0.1 km
- Sparks Street Mall 0.1 km
- NCC park 0.4 km
- Bank Street Promenade 0.4 km
- "The Village" 0.6 km
- Elgin Street Community 0.8 km
- Nanny Goat Hill 0.9 km
- Centretown (Ottawa city) 0.9 km
- Centretown West 1.7 km
- Hull island (QC) 1.8 km