Comments from woody

mystery solved using google street view, here is what remain of this beautiful theatre, the correct address is 145 Flagler Street
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3991501178/
i wonder if anything remains of the interior?

photos from sept 2009 of the interior stripped of all the bingo fittings and smelling damp and musty from two years of being closed but kept very clean by the church who are hoping to reopen in gradual stages by the end of this year
orignal lighting control panel (located just behind the proscenium arch)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3970130290/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969355945/
the auditorium
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969364299/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969368379/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3970151462/
circle lounge, dark and dimly lit felt like something from a david lynch film
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3970147660/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969393083/
telephone rooms
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969384961/
long abandoned toilets off the circle lounge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3969389255/
main inner lobby
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3970142976/

exterior in sept 2009, some kind person had parked a Citroen 2CV in front to add that extra Parisien “je ne sais quoi"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951014099/
and from slightly further back, so you can see up the side street the three screen Relfet Medicis and beyond that the two screen Filmotheque Quartier Latin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951010217/

located down a very narrow street a few yards from the grand rex
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3950984225/
screening a lot of dated looking adult films but obviously surviving in the days of dvd booth multichannel porn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3950981747/

daytime exterior sept 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951768340/
lobby with its deco liner feel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3950992847/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3950995469/

now operating as the institute finlanda and screening films
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951784670/

a close up of the frontage sept 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951029459/

typically on the day i visited the Rex tower was covered in scaffolding for renovation work on the exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951852834/
so i bought a postcard showing it at its artistic best
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951895912/
the side door entry to the “Les Etoiles du Rex” with its great deco sign
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951077205/
and the main downstairs lobby and paybox
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951083451/

another shot showing the full height of the exterior taken sept 2009, the Gaumont is right next door to the Rex
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3951080447/

a stunningly glorious survivor, seen here sept 2009
exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3923673407/
interior – sneaked through glass doors as a bingo session was in progress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3923670197/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3923667063/
lobby
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3923663787/

depressing images here on 28 days later, the auditorium has been gutted, the ceiling gone except for the metal girders
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shots from august 2009
daytime exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3860301196/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3860302768/
lobby stairs (great use of film marketing materials)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3859517909/
lower lobby
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3859519051/
front doors
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3859520343/

photo from august 2009 at night showing the great use of neon (apart from the V not working)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/3859602843/