Ritz Theatre
Nathan Road,
Mongkok,
Hong Kong
Nathan Road,
Mongkok,
Hong Kong
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The Ritz Theatre was situated in the Mongkok district on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the Victory Cinema, which had opened in 1941. The Ritz Theatre opened to business on 20th March, 1953 with a Mandarin language film. Before its closure on 1st June, 1972, it showed second run English language films except for a short period in early 1959 showing first run English language films. An office block was built on the site of the theatre.
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The Ritz Theatre was located on the west side of Nathan Road, a few blocks south of Argyle Street. Nothing extravagence, but it was an affordable and comfortable place to sit and watch movies.
Ritz building,an office building was built on the site of the Ritz Cinema.
There is an old photo of the Ritz theatre in Gwulo Hong Kong (meaning antiquated Hong Kong) web site:
http://gwulo.com/node/1219
Pierre, thanks for the link. There are a couple more photos of the Ritz here:
http://gwulo.com/node/3029
And a few photos of other old Hong Kong cinemas here:
http://gwulo.com/place-map-search?tid=cinema
The Ritz Cinema was built on the site of the former Victory Theatre which opened to business on 1st January, 1941.
Ritz building,an office building was built on the site of the Ritz Cinema.
http://www.hubschrauber-selber-fliegen.eu
Another photo of the Ritz is on this webpage (scroll down about halfway): View link
Ritz was on the junction of Nathan Road and Shantung Street (山東街)
Chinese name:麗斯戲院.