08-31-2023, 05:10 PM
(08-31-2023, 10:09 AM)Chris Wrote:(08-30-2023, 09:55 PM)panamaniac Wrote: I'm old enough to remember when there were four movie houses in DTK, a bowling alley, a number of bars, etc - it was busy at night, especially on weekends. Add in the teenagers/twenty somethings cruising up and down King St and it could feel very lively indeed in the evening.
Just as fun exercise for myself I tried to remember the old theatres in downtown. I can remember these theatres at one time or another. I don't remember a bowling alley though, where was it?
Odeon, Lyric, Capitol, Hyland, Fox, Cineplex, and King's College
I forgot to mention - the bowling alley was The Strand. It was upstairs in a building beside the old Dutch Boy, where City Hall plaza now stands. It had pin boys rather than automatic pin setting machines - it was way retro even in the 1960s.