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Description: Between 1900 and 1940 in the Hastings Street district (which I’m defining to include streets a couple blocks off of Hastings) there were, by my count, about a dozen theatres. That number, by the way, includes only distinct buildings – not cases of multiple owners buying a theatre and changing its name with every purchase (e.g., the second Pantages Theatre at 20 W Hastings which was also known during its life as the Beacon, the Odeon, and the Majestic). Most of the earliest theatres in the di
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