Vancouver Centennial Plaque #89 – Ackery’s Alley

Address:           Alley beside 665 Smithe Street (back wall of the Orpheum)

Status:             Still up

“ACKERY'S ALLEY

From 1935 through 1969 Ivan Ackery, the most awarded theatre manager in North America, ran the Orpheum – at that time a Famous Players movie palace. When Hollywood stars made live appearances, Ackery let them escape admiring mobs through this alley.”

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: The Vancouver Sun (10 September 1953)