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  • <p>original installation from 1928. Still being used weekly! No hybrid here either.</p>
  • <p>The Byrd still packs the customers in this single screen theater after 85 years and will continue to do so, for a long time to come!</p>
  • <p>upstairs lobby</p>
  • <p>original carbon arc projectors</p>
  • <p>March 2011</p>
  • <p>March 2011</p>
  • <p>The second, with that at Brighton, of the two Windsor theatres that are still open, this theatre has the same screening policy of quality recent or contemporary films shown as a double bill at affordable admission charges. This is a policy of the cinema enthusiast partnership which has owned the circuit for many years. Under them, or the previous ownership of the Cunew family, there have been other Windsor theatres in St. Morris, Hilton, Aldgate, Magill and Hindmarsh. For a time Bruce Cunew also operated the Piccadilly in North Adelaide after Greater Union ceased operation there. Of the others, only St. Morris and Hilton were purpose built cinemas. The ‘waterfall’ drop curtain is said to have been cut down from the original main curtain of the Adelaide Regent. I can certainly remember having seen and marvelled at the play of coloured light on one like it in the Regent as a child in the mid 30s.</p>
  • <p>Modernized for Hollywood Paramount (1942)</p>
  • <p>Auditorium towards stage</p>
  • <p>For the World Premiere of “The Life of Riley,” the RKO Grand replaces its own name on March 5, 1949 as it’s Life of Riley Week and star William Bendix hams it up a bit just prior to showtime.</p>
  • <p>The Burford Theatre Launched September 15, 1924 with “The Perfect Flapper”</p>
  • <p>Auditorium photo courtesy Rhea Foster‎.</p>
  • <p>Opening night at the Eastman and the orchestra is ready circa 1922.</p>
  • <p>September 4th, 1947</p>
  • <p>The Platte Theatre moved to 146 E. Main Street as the New Platte Theatre launching on July 1, 1949 with Arthur Franz in “Red Stallion in the Rockie</p>
  • <p>“At the Orpheus Theatre some years ago.”</p> <p>“Captain Cody and the ‘Still Alarm’”</p> <p>Date: 1926</p> <p>Reference no.: Tom Connors Nova Scotia Archives accession 1987-218 no. 635</p>
  • <p>Auditorium of the Minnesota Theatre at its opening.</p>