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johngleeson commented about Savoy Theatre on Feb 21, 2012 at 8:02 am

Dame Doris Fitton used the Savoy for smaller scale plays in her Independent Theatre before moving to North Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Savoy was equipped for talkies using locally produced sound systems.

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johngleeson commented about Rio Theatre on Feb 19, 2012 at 8:21 pm

The Rio was not on Longueville Road, it was on Burns Bay Road which terminates at Longuevlle Road. The final block of Burns Bay Road was landscaped as a mall park.

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johngleeson commented about Roseville Cinemas on Feb 18, 2012 at 6:51 am

Nearby theatres should include The Arcadia, Hoyts and Kings in Chatswood, the Gordon and Lindfield Kings
and the Pacific in Hornsby.

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johngleeson commented about Metro Crows Nest on Feb 11, 2012 at 3:39 pm

From the North Sydney municipal archives: Panels commissioned by Sydney County Council and mounted on George Street facade of the Queen Victoria Building for Australian Sesqui-centenary celebrations in 1938. The panels were designed by artist Edmund Harvey and the sculptors Neville Bunning and Morris Helsen. The panels were purchased for the newly refurbished Queens Picture Theatre, renamed the Sesqui Theatre at Crows Nest in 1938. The cinema was renamed the Metro and then the Dendy. In 1983 the cinema was demolished and the panels relocated to the Holroyd Centre.

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johngleeson commented about Hoyts Chatswood Theatre on Jan 28, 2012 at 8:16 pm

The Esquire had louvres over windows on the auditorium walls. In daytime showings an usher came by with a very long pole and closed the louvres. For most of its life it ran double bills, two or three days per week.

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johngleeson commented about Hawaii Theatre on Oct 22, 2009 at 8:54 pm

Here’s the bottom panel of a newspaper ad from 1958 with the Hawaii as the lead house.

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johngleeson commented about Fonda Theatre on May 27, 2006 at 1:21 am

This site has one exterior and two interior photos of the theater.
members.tripod.com/ ~movie_pal/fonda.html