I would say the Martin Avenue address is the owner’s address. The Majestic is definately located in Malanda, its listed in the Film Weekly-Motion Picture Directory 1951-52. There was a cinema in Mereeba called the Capitol Theatre (600 seats) listed in the same edition. By 1994, there was no cinema operating in Mereeba.
A 2004 photograph of the office block and shopping centre which contains the Metropol Biograf, seen here with its original name Palladium Biograf and viewed from the Radhuspladsen(Town Hall Square): http://flickr.com/photos/tpcom/36346786/
Two photographs of the Palladium, that I took in September 2008 (an independent film festival was the event on that day):
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2952330032/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2951477397/
Three photographs of the Spegeln Cinema, that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2947176371/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2947179185/
Foyer
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2948037060/
Four photographs of the Royal Cinema, that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2947682618/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946827195/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946828379/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946829323/
Three photographs of the Platan Biograf, that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946310945/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946313603/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2946314767/
A vintage photograph of the Astoria Old Kent Road in October 1949, playing the Odeon release:
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Photographed in the mid-1950’s:
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Ten photographs of the Valhalla Cinema that I took in February 2004:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941844933/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942706672/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942709094/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941853343/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941855597/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942719096/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942722882/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942725450/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942727948/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942731688/
Photographs that I took after the Valhalla Cinema had been closed for 8-months, when on the Cinema Theatre Association(UK) visit that I organised to Australia:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941881169/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941883171/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941885411/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942748650/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942752334/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941895765/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941898179/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941900921/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941904091/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941906331/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941911169/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942771624/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2941917553/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942778170/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2942782290/
A vintage photograph of the Gaumont, just before closing in 1960;
http://flickr.com/photos/holmsey/2865809844/
Two vintage photographs of the auditorium after closure in 1960:
http://flickr.com/photos/holmsey/2865811158/
http://flickr.com/photos/holmsey/2865812464/
Five photographs of the Scala Cinemas, that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938196211/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2939051740/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2939055648/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938206989/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938209547/
Listed in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915 edition as the Jefferson Casino, 474 Hamburg Avenue.
A photograph of the Norreport Biograf that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938614614/
Three photographs I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2937748247/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2937751785/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938607510/
Three photographs I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2937735149/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938590742/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2938594604/
Another vintage view from October 1955, when Associated British Cinemas took over:
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Here is a vintage postcard view from the early 1940’s:
http://www.postcardman.net/100442.jpg
Photographs of the Cinema Camera, taken in December 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184854564/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1183997419/
Interior-Foyer
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184013797/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184846630/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184845670/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184844828/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184848954/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1183985843/
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184872752/
Auditorium
http://flickr.com/photos/pulp-o-rama/1184004275/
I would say the Martin Avenue address is the owner’s address. The Majestic is definately located in Malanda, its listed in the Film Weekly-Motion Picture Directory 1951-52. There was a cinema in Mereeba called the Capitol Theatre (600 seats) listed in the same edition. By 1994, there was no cinema operating in Mereeba.
A 2004 photograph of the office block and shopping centre which contains the Metropol Biograf, seen here with its original name Palladium Biograf and viewed from the Radhuspladsen(Town Hall Square):
http://flickr.com/photos/tpcom/36346786/
Four photographs of the Metropol Teatret that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929988712/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929129555/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929131273/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929133193/
Three photographs that I took of the Listed building; Savoy Hotel, which used to house the Royal Biograf between 1906-1912:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2928760209/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929618490/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929620604/
Four photographs of the Hawaii Bio that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2928745449/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929613068/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2928751449/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2929615676/
Two photographs of the former Alexandra Teatret, which I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927934904/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927079429/
Two photographs I took of the ABCinema and Palace Hotel in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2926725825/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2926729855/
Three photographs of the Gloria Biograf that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927450802/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927454180/
Foyer:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927456466/
Four photographs of the Vester Vov Vov that I took in September 2008:
Exterior:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2926465533/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2926466807/
Foyer:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927322282/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927323452/
Six photographs of the Posthus Teatret that I took in September 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927204098/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927223652/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2926352419/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927219168/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927225754/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2927227068/