Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1980
This is a FISA postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking north east with Coventry Street to the right and Shaftesbury Avenue on the left. It is late May or June 1980 and there is a bit of a mystery surrounding the film playing at the London Pavilion. “The Final Countdown” was a science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, a US Navy Aircraft Carrier is transported back to 1941 just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour… The film regularly crops up on TV and in 1980 it played at the Leicester Square Theatre from late May and all of June but according to the newspaper listings it did not play at the London Pavilion. In fact, there are no listings for the London Pavilion in May or June. At the time the future of the London Pavilion was in doubt and it closed the following year in April, it was gutted, and a shopping centre and two small cinemas were built behind the façade. The front of the building has already lost its neon signs, it may just be that the hoarding is advertising the film for the Leicester Square Theatre.
Piccadilly Circus: 1980
This is a FISA postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking north east with Coventry Street to the right and Shaftesbury Avenue on the left. It is late May or June 1980 and there is a bit of a mystery surrounding the film playing at the London Pavilion. “The Final Countdown” was a science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, a US Navy Aircraft Carrier is transported back to 1941 just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour… The film regularly crops up on TV and in 1980 it played at the Leicester Square Theatre from late May and all of June but according to the newspaper listings it did not play at the London Pavilion. In fact, there are no listings for the London Pavilion in May or June. At the time the future of the London Pavilion was in doubt and it closed the following year in April, it was gutted, and a shopping centre and two small cinemas were built behind the façade. The front of the building has already lost its neon signs, it may just be that the hoarding is advertising the film for the Leicester Square Theatre.