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 Thadius
     
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
 |  |  |  |  | Bye Bye Lyric
< on 1/7/2010 11:33 PM >
|  | | | The Lyric Theatre in Hamilton is collapsing. Mary Street is closed off and barriers have been erected.
Apparently the two upper floors have collapsed downwards and the rear of the building is visibly buckling.
This building holds a large place in my heart. It is my favourite location in Hamilton, despite its advanced state of degradation. I used to go see movies at this theatre in my youth. I first explored this Theatre within weeks of it closing and have explored and returned to its Urban comforting silence many many times. Often I would just go and sit silently or walk its interior getting to know ever corner, every stair well and every detail. It was a place of refuge for me when I was younger and continued to be such right up until recently.
I have personally watched this structure degrade over the last two decades from a beautiful full functioning cinema to the heaping rotting hulk it is today.
I was looking forward to seeing it remodelled and turned into beautiful homes, but now I will likely see the parking lot extended.
Yet another historic building of Hamilton's past turns to dust.
So very sad.
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Stewie
   
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| |  | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 1 on 1/7/2010 11:37 PM >
| | | | I'm very depressed too but nobody that has been inside can say they didn't see this coming. Outside of the main auditorium itself, the building deteriorated into a literal death trap in the last 5 years.
Looks like it's going to be another empty downtown field by next month.
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| | | | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 2 on 1/7/2010 11:40 PM >
| | | | Oh I saw it coming pal, sadly.
It doesn't make it any less sad though.
I adore this building, she's my favourite.
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HairyTheTaco
Location: The Hammer, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 3 on 1/7/2010 11:43 PM >
| | | | Ouch. I loved that place.
I think we all seen this coming, I just didnt expect this to happen for a few more years.
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mello
Location: Port Colborne
Gender: Female
tastes like chicken.
| | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 4 on 1/7/2010 11:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by Thadius
Oh I saw it coming pal, sadly.
It doesn't make it any less sad though.
I adore this building, she's my favourite.
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Agreed. Although it wasn't a favorite, it was still a very nice place and this is very sad news.
when you are here, you wish you were there. but once you're there, it soon becomes a here, and you again wish to be there instead of here...
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| | | | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 6 on 1/7/2010 11:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by le_button_m
Agreed. Although it wasn't a favorite, it was still a very nice place and this is very sad news.
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Oh, it is by no means the most grand or elegant or interesting building in the Hammer, it is just that I have been exploring this building and returning to it and watching it decline since before it was closed.
I first explored it active when I went to see a movie there once and I saw the doors off to the right of the screen. I was a small guy and went slinking around during the movie. I had no idea that it had such a rich history of being a former actual functioning theatre with backdrops, giant pulleys stage rooms and everything. It was fantastic.
After it closed and was abandoned Myself and two friends of mine entered through a rear door and went exploring. They left but I stayed for hours. I stayed and read all the newspapers that were underneath the floor tiles on the second floor near the offices. They were a lining under the vinyl they were dated from the early 1900s. I climbed up the ladder I found in a closet and came out onto the former upper balcony of the former theatre. Underneath me was the false roof that was installed when they transformed it into a cinema. I saw the old paint styles and the old decoration still in place. It was breath taking.
I fell in love with that place then. It was fresh newly abandoned and it was pristine, no vandalism, no tagging.
I returned to visit often over the next 20 years. I watched as the paint started to peel, I watched as they removed the seats and levelled the auditorium floor to try and turn it into a night club and failed. I watched as vandals and street people made it their hang out and home. I watched as the roof first started leaking and then collapsed upon the balcony I visited every time I entered.
It grew old and infirm as I grew older.
Now it dies.
I am loosing a friend.
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Stewie
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 7 on 1/8/2010 12:03 AM >
| | | | It had a beauty you had to experience to believe.
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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Stewie
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Gender: Male
kill your idols
| | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 8 on 1/8/2010 12:06 AM >
| | | | I really wish I could have seen this beautiful theatre the way it was when it was abandoned. The area where the balcony was and the backstage must have been breathtaking.
It's a horrible shame that no photos have ever surfaced of it any earlier than the roof collapse.
[last edit 1/8/2010 12:06 AM by Stewie - edited 2 times]
> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 9 on 1/8/2010 12:09 AM >
| | | | Given its state, I'm surprised it lastedthis long
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| | | | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 10 on 1/8/2010 12:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by Stewie
I really wish I could have seen this beautiful theatre the way it was when it was abandoned. The area where the balcony was and the backstage must have been breathtaking.
It's a horrible shame that no photos have ever surfaced of it any earlier than the roof collapse.
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Stewie it was gorgeous. It had many vestiges of its Vaudeville days. The back stage was full of storage but it was a lot less empty than when you knew it. The seats were very much like those at the Tivoli, felt and comfortable.
The art was bright and vibrant on the walls and they still had Users with Flash lights to show you to your seats. The Office area had awesome wood trim that showed its age and it was really interesting to be up there and saw the very last staff schedules on the walls, the last calendars used and the myriad of paperwork and other stuff. The projector room was the first place I had ever seen theatre projectors. I was used to just those little jobbies in school. These were massive beasts.
It was a lovely place.
I think the reason there are so few pictures from explorers then is because of the use of film. I didn't carry a camera mainly because I didn't think of it, but had I the though and expense of development was beyond me at that time, plus exploring abandoned buildings would have angered my parents.
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phrenzee
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 11 on 1/8/2010 12:50 AM >
| | | | I will miss this place. I explored it three or four times in the last three years.
I first went there back in the 1980's, when I skipped class, drove to Hamilton with some pals and watched some bizarre Reg Hartt film.
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logtec
Location: Logtec is the UER representative for Scarborough, Ontario.
Gender: Male
Nice head, what's in the bag?
| | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 12 on 1/8/2010 12:57 AM >
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great shots Stewart!
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Glass
Location: Chicago
as one does
| | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 13 on 1/8/2010 1:03 AM >
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Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
| | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 15 on 1/8/2010 2:29 AM >
| | | | My best memories of that place involved movie night.
That was awesome.
RIP Lyric, one of my favourite places on Earth.
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 16 on 1/8/2010 2:47 AM >
| | | | Wow, that's a real shame, but it was coming. I remember the movie meet with great fondness.
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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Boffo
Moderator
Location: Smithers, BC
Gender: Male
HONK! HONK!
| | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 17 on 1/8/2010 3:19 AM >
| | | | Posted by Lexi
My best memories of that place involved movie night.
That was awesome.
RIP Lyric, one of my favourite places on Earth.
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I agree, movie night was pretty bad ass.
Gotta say though I never felt much love for this location, it didn't jump out at me as anything special and I never understood why local Hamilton people loved the place so damn much when there were bigger better things around. Like I won't deny that the first trip or two I was impressed, but the next one thousand times... not so much.
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| | | | | Re: Bye Bye Lyric
<Reply # 19 on 1/8/2010 3:22 AM >
| | | | Mine was a personal Love Boffo, not really for the architecture or the wow of it, more the history and the familiarity, like a tree-house or a fort. It was a friend of mine as I described above.
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