sp2 I would love scans of your photos. If this is at all possible please let me know. I have collected as many pictures of the interior as I can, but most are very poor quality. They are not for a website, just for memories sake, I’m a Queenslander. .au
The Regent Theatre Brisbane, was always my favourite cinema. I saw many films there during the 60’s and 70’s, often just for the chance to sit in such a grand Palace for 2 hours. It’s demolition in 1980 by the Dean Brothers is Brisbane’s greatest architectural loss. Even though the foyer has survived, it only helps to remind one of what was once beyond that staircase. Within a few years of the Regent’s “conversion”, the rest of Brisbane’s Picture Palace theatres were gone, “Her Majesty’s” (originally the Brisbane Opera House built 1886) destroyed to make way for a shopping centre, The Wintergarden theatre, The George, all gone. After this incredible mayhem of destruction, Brisbane was left without any major theatres, with the resurgence of stage musicals, a Government structure, resembling a huge concrete shoebox was built to replace the amazing structures that had once graced Brisbane’s streets.
sp2 I would love scans of your photos. If this is at all possible please let me know. I have collected as many pictures of the interior as I can, but most are very poor quality. They are not for a website, just for memories sake, I’m a Queenslander. .au
The Regent Theatre Brisbane, was always my favourite cinema. I saw many films there during the 60’s and 70’s, often just for the chance to sit in such a grand Palace for 2 hours. It’s demolition in 1980 by the Dean Brothers is Brisbane’s greatest architectural loss. Even though the foyer has survived, it only helps to remind one of what was once beyond that staircase. Within a few years of the Regent’s “conversion”, the rest of Brisbane’s Picture Palace theatres were gone, “Her Majesty’s” (originally the Brisbane Opera House built 1886) destroyed to make way for a shopping centre, The Wintergarden theatre, The George, all gone. After this incredible mayhem of destruction, Brisbane was left without any major theatres, with the resurgence of stage musicals, a Government structure, resembling a huge concrete shoebox was built to replace the amazing structures that had once graced Brisbane’s streets.