{"id":8355,"date":"2010-10-05T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:30:51","slug":"sevilles-final-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/10\/05\/sevilles-final-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Seville&#8217;s Final Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Farewell Seville by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/5055243194\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4104\/5055243194_5c521a9f37.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell Seville\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demolition of the Seville Theatre\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.canoe.ca\/infos\/societe\/archives\/2010\/10\/20101004-174021.html\">began yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0This afternoon,\u00a0I noticed that a\u00a0small\u00a0crowd had gathered on the sidewalk &#8211; most were older gentlemen come to pay their last respects to the theatre, which has stood on the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Chomedey for the past 80 years.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Farewell Seville by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/5055242610\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/5055242610_95c774f8d6.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell Seville\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One gentleman told me that he remembered when the building housed a Vaudeville theatre, before it became a cinema. He pointed out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/04\/02\/photo-du-jour-inside-the-seville\/\">space at the north end <\/a>of the building where the stage had been and the wings where performers once waited to make their entrances. He said he had recently been able to go into the abandoned building to take some photos and found that a\u00a0group of homeless Inuit had taken up residence in the wings, laying down bedding on all three levels of the structure. The Seville has been abandoned for 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demolition of the Seville Theatre\u00a0began yesterday.\u00a0This afternoon,\u00a0I noticed that a\u00a0small\u00a0crowd had gathered on the sidewalk &#8211; most were older gentlemen come to pay their last respects to the theatre, which has stood on the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Chomedey for the past 80 years. 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