Vancouver Centennial Plaque #35 – Pantages Theatre

Address:           150 E Hastings

Status:             Last seen on April 2009 StreetView, gone by August 2011. Building since demolished

35. PANTAGES THEATRE

Vancouver's first Pantages theatre opened here on January 6, 1908. Part of a “circuit” of vaudeville theatres owned by Alexander Pantages, it featured live commercial entertainment for family audiences. Vaudeville remained popular until the late 1920s but succumbed to the competition of talking pictures.

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 1-49 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: UBC (UL_1624_04_0239, UL_1624_04_0239)