SilverCity closing at end of 2022

[Margaret's boy]

I don't know if this news item will be of interest to those of you who live in Metro Detroit but the city of Windsor will lose one of its' two remaining movie theatres at the end of this year. The SilverCity cinemas on the corner of Walker and Provincial Roads, near the city's border with neighboring Tecumseh, opened in 1997 just in time for the premier of James Cameron's Titanic, and boasts 3,000 seats and an IMAX theatre on a 17,000 square foot lot. It is currently closed in Ontario's latest don't-call-it-a-lockdown, lockdown. The entire Windsor-Essex region, with a population of 500,000, has only two theatres left to my knowledge, The Devonshire Mall Cineplex, which was built around 2001 as part of the mall expansion, and Lakeshore Cinemas in neighboring Tecumseh at the corner of the E C Row expressway and Manning Road, which opened a few years later. It's pretty depressing to think Windsor once boasted dozens of movie theatres with names like the Vanity, the Capitol, the Palace, Parkway, and Forest Glade.