43 Elm Street in Sudbury before the CBC

It's been home to a movie theatre, restaurants, tobacconist, fruit market and a butcher shop, but CBC is the first radio station to occupy this spot on Elm Street.

The new CBC Sudbury address is 43 Elm Street, but in the past the address was 71 Elm Street East.

Early in the 20th Century, that stretch of Elm was full of small shopsand then in 1923, the Regent movie theatre was built there.

The Regent suffered through several fires and finally closed in the 1960s. After that the building it was in, known as the Stevens Building, was converted into an indoor shopping centre simply known as The Mall.

The building was seized by the city for back taxes in the 1980s and was eventually torn down, with the foundation reused for the new Elm Town Square shopping mall, which opened in 1985.

But like the much larger City Centre (now known as the Rainbow Centre) across the street, Elm Town Square declined along with the downtown retail sector and today it has become an office complex.