Granville Street Entertainment District
Neon-lit strip of former vaudeville theatres turned nightclubs, bars and live-music venues along a historic downtown street.
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This guide to the Granville Street Entertainment District in Vancouver opens with a 1973 fight to save the ornate Orpheum Theatre from being carved into a multiplex, a campaign that pulled in an unlikely voice from American radio and television comedy. It traces the street's earlier life as Theatre Row, once lit by thousands of neon signs rivaled in North America only by Las Vegas, and the string of picture palaces that lined it. Best walked at dusk, when the surviving marquees start to glow.
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