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Kaplan & Sprachman, Architects

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted November 2017

This Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque can be found on the east side of the entrance doors to the Eglinton Grand on Eglinton Avenue West, west of Avenue Road. Here's what it tells us:

Coordinates: 43.704300 -79.410571

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During the "Golden Age" of cinema in the first half of the 20th century, Harold Kaplan and Abraham Sprachman designed hundreds of movie theatres, like the Eglinton, in the Moderne style. They put the latest engineering and film technologies into their theatres, and clad the interiors in the newest finishes to create alluring spaces that briefly transported moviegoers out of their everyday lives. This prolific firm captured the glamour of the movies by using flowing, streamlined surfaces and neon-lit marquees, producing a distinctive architectural feature on main streets and in neighbourhoods across Canada.

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Eglinton Theatre

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