Historic small town Ontario movie theatre with ‘big movie feel’ for sale [Video]

Nearly 30 years after a couple of “crazy movie buffs” brought the “big movie feel” to the little community of Uxbridge – while preserving a big part of the town’s history in the process – the historic Roxy Theatre is up for sale.

The theatre opened at the corner of Brock Street and Toronto Street in the heart of downtown in the 1940s (replacing a theatre that burned down on nearby Main Street) and served as the town’s focal point until it shut down in the 1970s and became a drug store.

When that store went up for sale the Christoffs stepped up and began the process of gutting the building (where they discovered the original theatre floor) and brought in re-cushioned seats from another movie theatre as well as the latest in projection and sound technology.

The ‘new’ Roxy Theatre opened on Dec. 13, 1996.

Twenty-eight-and-a-half years of memories later (and countless buckets of popcorn with real butter), …