Jason Logan

Grampa Mike worked on the IH farm machinery assembly line in Chicago before WWI. Opened a candy store in Chatham ON where he met the beautiful Rosamund Moore. "Grandma Rosie" gave him three sons. An Edward G. Robinson lookalike, Mike followed the lead of his countrymen Spyros Skouras and Alexander Pantages into the vaudeville cinema show business and built a handful of theatres including Sarnia's original Imperial - half the size of Toronto's Pantages (now the Canon Theatre). The 800-seat Imperial was swept away by a triple tornado in 1953. My Great UncleJack Logan managed the Capital Vaudeville Theatre in London ON - hometown of Jack Warner, Ned Sparks, Gene Lockhart, Aimee Semple MacPherson and the Lombardo Brothers. That movie palace was also demolished - this time by the wrecking ball. But the Sarnia Imperial lives on having morphed into a Blue Water area community auditorium at the former Famous Players/Paramount Capital , near the library and museum and our 19th Century gabled br