Video Update - 28 April 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x18 - The Lorelei

Gunsmoke - 12x11 - The Newcomers

I Love Lucy - 2x09 - Ricky Loosing His Voice

I Love Lucy - 2x10 - Sales Resistance

Marshal Dillon - 2x12 - Spring Term

My Three Sons - 7x32 - Weekend in Paradise

Petticoat Junction - 5x30 - Kate's Homecoming

Rawhide - 2x23 - Incident of the Stargazer

Untouchables - 3x01 - Troubleshooter

William & Kate: A Modern Royal Romance

Video Update - 27 April 2011

12 O'Clock High - 1x17 - The Albatross

Combat - Beneath the Ashes

Gunsmoke - Stage Stop

Hawaii Five-O - Thanks for the Honeymoon

Honeymooners - Baby Sitter

I Love Lucy - 2x07 - The Courtroom

I Love Lucy - 2x08 - Redecorating

Japanese Earthquake - 20110312CNN(0729-0857)

Marshal Dillon - 2x09 - The Mistake

My Three Sons - 7x31 - So Long, Charley, Hello

Petticoat Junction - 5x28 - My Pal Sam

Petticoat Junction - 5x29 - Ring-A-Ding-Ding

Prince William's Africa

Rawhide - 4x29 - Devil and the Deep Blue

Real King's Speech

Untouchables - 3x06 - Loophole

Video Update - 26 April 2011

Ancient Aliens - Alien Contacts

Ancient Aliens - Alien Devastations

Ancient Aliens - Alien Tech

Ancient Aliens - Aliens and the 3rd Reich

Ancient Aliens - Underground Aliens

Ancient Aliens - Unexplained Structures

Being Human - 2x02 - Adam's Family

Bob Newhart Show - Guaranteed Not to Shrink

Combat - Billy the Kid

Dick Van Dyke Show - 4x06 - Romances, Roses & Rye Bread

Gunsmoke - 12x09 - The Well

Hawaii Five-O - The Child Stealers

Honeymooners - Oh My Achin' Back

I Love Lucy - 2x05 - The Saxiphone

I Love Lucy - 2x06 - Vacation From Marriage

Japanese Earthquake - 20110312CNN(0330-0727)

March of the Dinosaurs

Mary Tyler Moore Show - 5x18 - Phillis Whips Inflation

Rawhide - 2x21 - Incident At Sulphur Creek

Rawhide - 4x23 - The Immigrants

The curtain is falling on vaudeville palace

PANTAGES THEATRE

Demolition permit issued to raze movie house

The old Pantages Theatre on East Hastings is likely to be 

demolished in a few days. The back of the building is 

already being ripped apart.

  It's curtains for the Pantages The­atre, Vancouver's oldest vaudeville/ movie house.BY JOHN MACKIE

  The century old landmark at 144-150 East Hastings near Main will proba­bly be torn down in the next couple of days, after the city issued a demolition permit for the site.

  "They've been chewing away next door, so [demolition is] imminent," said Don Luxton of Heritage Vancou­ver. "They've already started ripping out the backs of the buildings."

  Several groups have attempted to revive the Pantages, which was the oldest theatre remaining from a leg­endary chain of vaudeville palaces that Alexander Pantages built across North America.

  It has been vacant since 1994, and has been rotting inside from rain seep­ing in through a damaged roof, a text-book case of what heritage activists call

"demolition through neglect."

  "I think it's a tragic and irreversible loss," said Luxton. "We're losing what was clearly recognized as a historic theatre. We can't get it back now, it's gone."

  Demolition permits have also been issued for the four adjacent properties at 130, 132, 134 and 138 East Hastings, which means there will soon be another big empty lot in the troubled Downtown Eastside.

  Will Johnston of the city's licences and inspections department said no plans have been approved to rede­velop the site.

  The Pantages was built in 1907-08 in the middle of Vancouver's original downtown.

  It was converted to a movie house in the late 1920s, and in the early '30S sur­vived a fire in the projectionist's booth and a bomb that was thrown into the theatre during a labour meeting. It had several names over its lifetime, includ­ing the Royal, State, Queen, Avon and City Nights. It last operated as the Sung Sing, a Chinese-language theatre.

--The Vancouver Sun 8 April 2011