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Doubling back along Queen Street, it's a brief stroll to one of the city's most unusual attractions, the Elgin Theatre and Winter Garden , across from the Eaton Centre at 189 Yonge St (guided tours only, Thurs 5pm & Sat 11am; 90min; $7; tel 416/597-0965). The first part of the guided tour covers the Elgin, an old vaudeville theatre which has been restored after years of neglect and is now equipped with ornate furnishings and fittings, columns, engravings and gilt mirrors. The Elgin was turned into a cinema in the 1930s and, remarkably enough, its accompaniment, the top-floor Winter Garden , also a vaudeville theatre, was sealed off. Such double-decker theatres were introduced in the late nineteenth century in New York and soon became popular along the east coast, but only a handful have survived. Even better, when this one was unsealed, its original decor was found to be intact, the ceiling hung with thousands of preserved and painted beech leaves illuminated by coloured lanterns. In the event, much of the decor had to be replaced, but the restoration work was painstakingly thorough and the end result is delightful.
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