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Lost Plaza Theatre chandelier discovered in Esperance, WA, after 53 years | The Examiner

The Plaza Theatre operated for 31 years under four managers: Harrie Peverill, Jack Thornley, his brother Brian Thornley, and Hugh Quigley.

Ted Mathews was the projectionist from the second show until the last on January 29, 1964, with an audience of 250. Television had arrived.

In February 1964 the Plaza Theatre was once more demolished, this time to make way for a row of six mediocre shops.

The chandelier failed to sell at auction, but a private buyer shipped it to their home in Esperance, Western Australia, where it remains to this day.

Published in The Sunday Examiner, August 23, 2020, page 23

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