Walkerville Theatre – 1920

View Comments

• It appears the Star's From The Archives is back - it only disappears on weekends due the Windsor Star's absolutely horrendous website layout whereby once something isn't on the front page (which there are less articles to choose from now since their awful redesign), it is absolutely inaccessible. Try finding the most recent Entertainment Listings on their site once it's no longer on the main page. But if you're going to be the Windsor newspaper, you might as well apply some "Windsor logic" to the situation and make it incredibly frustrating, ridiculously and absurdly thought out and have no accountability.

  Anyways, the Archives is back online. They really could use someone who knows a thing or two about how to research more info about it though. Perhaps they can hire Andrew to do some freelancing for them.

• And to David H. and his parking lot dreams - car-centric ideas is what has all but destroyed the city's facade and heritage. Numerous cities all over the world have managed to develop healthy alternatives to knocking down neighbourhoods to build parking lots. Try visiting one to know.

• Maybe, tho I know a longshot, use the old Classic Bingo lot at George and Wyandotte for parking, and set up a bus/shuttle service strictly for the theather. Vehicles could be more modern/green internally, but do the exteriors,etc, like the old streetcars or trolly's? I think anyone today could enjoy the experience, as long as it's not costing you $70 for a night out at the show, like any other place in town. That's ridiculous. Just a thought.......which I'm sure someone will shoot down. Just over the last few years I've actually taken a huge interest in the history of this city. People are right, Windsor is getting notorious for allowing historical buildings to be turned into parking lots.

• Sean, thats a really good idea. Somewhere to park,(especially for out of towners) the theater patrons stay dry in the rain,no long bus rides with multiply transfers and no demolition around the theater. Windsor needs more problem solvers not more complainers and winers.

• My vote is to keep it and get creative! Let's not also forget about supporting the Capitol and other places like Palace Cinemas keeping these venues open and running depends on public attendance!

• The only problem is we don't have effiecient transit transit windsor is anything but effiecient

• Film Poster for "The Daughter Pays". You can see the poster on the front of the building... I noticed it as I was looking at the December page from the current (2011) IM calendar. Good stuff.
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/26073312@N08/4491493276/

• Sharp eye. Good find.

• Sheesh, isn't it considered a historical site? Can't the city buy it? When will administrators look ahead (as well as behind) for a change and realise that the mowed down old features of our cities erase so much more than brick? Will our predecessors look upon us as a people who only valued parking lots?

• If the city bought every old building even if it had historical value, who would choose whitc is true hiistorical or an old building nobody wants to buy.
  The city does not have the financal ability, or mandate to do this. The taxes would go skyhigh and nobody will buy property in Windsor.

  Stucco haters rejoice, the Star/Palace Theater is losingits going all glass.