Comments on: In and out of Vogue: A Vancouver art deco story https://evelazarus.com/in-and-out-of-vogue/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:30:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alan MacKinnon https://evelazarus.com/in-and-out-of-vogue/#comment-49464 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 15:10:26 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5232#comment-49464 I was hired by Odeon as assistant manager at the Vogue in the mid 70s. The “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” was playing when I started. The biggest event ever was the opening weekend of “Jaws” when we had a lineup of people waiting to purchase tickets that went from the box office North to Smyth, around the corner, and down the alley almost to the back of the theatre. That was the shorter line. The longer one went from the box office South to Nelson, east to the alley and North up the alley. The two lines were about 50’ apart behind the theatre. The box office gross for that first weekend was just over $100,000.
One thing that fascinated me was the lighting system which was the first remote controlled system in Canada. It used rotary resistance dimmers that were driven by variable speed motors and electrical clutches all controlled from the projection booth. Even with the very shallow depth of stage it sported a counterweighted fly gallery.

]]> By: Lee Leeman https://evelazarus.com/in-and-out-of-vogue/#comment-5014 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:21:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5232#comment-5014 September, 2019

One more thing about the old Vogue. My Dad who was a decent self taught violin maker and who sold his instruments heard about the renovation of the Vogue in the ’60s I believe. He knew his way around a construction site and for all I know was working for one of the contractors doing reno. He made a deal and brought home some plaques of beautiful BC curly maple. These plaques were just the size for sawing up into the size for a violin back. I still have one of these pieces of the vogue with a violin drawn by hand in pencil on it and the wood test varnished within the violin penciled outline. This was typical of my Dad’s approach.

What I know is that at that time, unlike today, BC wood was shunned for instrument making as not being ‘European’ enough. My Dad probably bought the wood for a song. Now part of the old Vogue lives on as someone’s hand made violin and part of it adorns my basement room.

]]> By: David Banks https://evelazarus.com/in-and-out-of-vogue/#comment-3050 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 21:12:27 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5232#comment-3050 75 years ago yesterday/today

And apparently the above message is blocked for being s p am. …oh, I have a story. I was in the audience on the last show on the last day in June 1987…June 18 1987 Predator.

The audience was sparse, maybe 50. Probably less than that. Anyway, most left when the credits started rolling. It was at that point I realized that a quick trip to “see a man about a horse” after the final curtain would mean…

I was the last patron at the final show on the last day of the Vogue.

Fin

]]> By: Elizabeth Olson https://evelazarus.com/in-and-out-of-vogue/#comment-1747 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 01:58:28 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=5232#comment-1747 Thanks for the memories . . .

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