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Rosemount Gardens 360 Fitzgerald Street, North Perth, WA

The first continuing screenings in North Perth were at the Rosemount Picture Gardens (Close up of the interior where you can imagine being greeted in the 1920’s with the sight of deck chairs, foliage and the theatre screen at the end of the compound)

This image sits well inside the entrance, (look up) above the entrance is the bio box which projected towards the rear of the compound. (The screen was on the back-wall facing the bio box)

*Real estate photo

The Rosemount Gardens opened on a site in Angove St, next to the Rosemount Hotel on the southern side of the intersection of Angove and Fitzgerald Streets, in 1920. This venue had a brick street frontage, containing the bio-box. Inside, the whole flat seating area was grassed, with hard seats along the left side and the front, and deckchairs inside a fenced area in the middle and to the right. Babies in prams would be parked along the aisles, next to their parents.

There was no concession building: patrons went out to local shops if they wished to purchase refreshments. Male ushers showed patrons to their places, though seats were not numbered.In 1924, a theatre was built to operate in conjunction with the gardens, but not next door to it: the theatre was at 464 Fitzgerald St, on the opposite side of the road, facing the Angove St intersection. It had a lesser hall, hired out for meetings even while the films were going on in the theatre.

The Picture Gardens closed in 1960

Contributed by Greg Lynch -