HundredNorth writes about the closing of the Capitol Six, a charmless six-screen, old school multiplex in downtown Vancouver (replaced by the equally-charmless Paramount). Despite referring to it as ‘the crackhouse on Granville’ for years, I’ll miss the Capitol Six. I’ll always remember being a teenager and coming downtown to see a movie. I’d catch a blue bus from West Van, and generally linger at Golden Age Collectables before heading in to see a film. In the late eighties, the view from the third floor of the building was impressive, and unique for a suburban kid who rarely saw the city from above ground level.
I believe the Capitol Six had the largest theatre in the city, after the Stanley Theatre converted to a live stage. I bemoaned the loss of the Stanley a lot more, as it was an incredible historical theatre with a spectacular balcony. I remember cutting class with Rob Stover and Steve Lee to sit in the front row of the balcony to watch the opening day matinee showing of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I took this photo through the window, a few days after the theatre closed.
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I saw Star Wars for the first time at the Stanley, front row centre. But for a North Shore kid, it was inaccessible without parental assistance so the Cap 6 was our theatre of choice. I wish I’d known it was closing in time to make one last pilgrimage.
Darren, I would hardly call a West Van kid ‘suburban’ I mean, even if you lived at the bottom of the hill, just climb to the top and see downtown Vancouver.
-A (real) suburbanite from Langley.
What a small world, I cut class to see the opening of Indian Jones and the Last Crusade at the Stanley Theatre too.
I’ll miss seeing movies in theatre 1.