Kingsford Odeon
448 Anzac Parade,
Sydney,
NSW
2032
448 Anzac Parade,
Sydney,
NSW
2032
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My Father’s long association with the film industry began at this cinema as an usher in 1950. He went on to manage many of Greater Union'n cinemas and drive-ins
Paul Brennan who was in the theatre biz in the Botany-Mascot-Kingsford area recalls the Reno having a retractable roof in its early years so it didn’t always have a ceiling over the midsection. The Odeon closed with “The Fall Of The Roman Empire” and fell victim to a deranged arsonist who also set fire to the Daceyville school on the same night.
The Castellorizian Club was built in 1972 and as of June 21, 2013, the image shown on Google Earth is the construction of a new, larger club