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The Port Charlotte Town Center originally opened in August 1989, as the first (and currently only) major enclosed shopping mall in Charlotte County. Built and opened by the DeBartolo Corporation, the mall opened with Sears, JCPenney, and Belk-Lindsey as original anchors, with space available for three more. Maas Brothers was originally planned to open as a fourth anchor in 1990, but these plans later fell through, due to the financial troubles that parent company Federated was going through at the time.

Dillard's and Montgomery Ward were added as fourth and fifth anchors in 1992. Around the same time, Belk-Lindsey closed at the mall and was replaced by Burdines in 1994. A 16-screen Regal Cinemas multiplex was added on to the mall in 1999 as its final newly-built anchor, replacing an older 8-screen cinema at the corner of US-41 and Cochran Boulevard (now occupied by a post office and Edgewater Church). Montgomery Ward closed in 2000-01 with the bankruptcy of the chain, and was replaced by Bealls in 2002. Burdines was renamed to Burdines-Macy’s in 2003, before becoming Macy’s in 2005.

 

Junior anchors of the mall include Old Navy (opened in 1999) and DSW Shoe Warehouse.

Former Front Stage Multiplex in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Somewhere near Chicago...

 

My family has the tradition of going to see a film on Christmas Day. This year was no exception. The film I really wanted to see, Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh (a biography of the great British painter), was only playing in one theatre, on Chicago's North Side. As my father is frail, it was decided that we see something playing closer to his home. Such is life!

 

This shot was taken just after entering the movie theatre, amid the lines of people waiting to buy tickets at an enourmous multiplex. As you can see, there were many family groups of people whose roots are on the Indian subcontinent, affectionately known as "Desi." I have no idea which film/s they were there to see. I decided to take advantage of the splendid photo opportunity...and share the shot with you!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing you all the best for 2015. May it be a year full of joy, good health, and marvelous photos for all of us!

  

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For the group six word story.

  

First experiment with the pull zoom trick, used on the Singapore flyer, which was lit for the 2008 new year countdown.

This is a bit of the editing suite that generally gets used for football, its called the Multiplex and has a huge photograph of the Scottish fans along the front wall.

 

Its a bit of a long shot but the first person to guess the game I've drawn on the screen I'll send you a print of your choice from my flickr (if you want!)

The $260 million cancer treatment and research building on Missenden Road at Camperdown is named in honour of the late Professor Chris O’Brien, a leading surgeon who succumbed to a brain tumour in 2009. Professor O’Brien’s widow, Gail, and their children were guests at the ceremony.

 

“The agreement for the transfer and operation of cancer services from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is unique - the first agreement of its kind in Australia,” Mrs Skinner said.

 

“The Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is a not-for-profit benevolent institution that will treat public and private patients. The NSW Government will purchase cancer services for public patients from Lifehouse for an initial estimated cost of around $16.7 million each year.

 

“This unique collaboration will deliver cancer services to public and private patients for decades to come.”

 

The Federal Government provided capital funding of $161 million to construct Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, with a further $19 million to enable the completion of the inpatient facility.

 

The NSW Government has leased the land to the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse for 40 years at no cost, as well as leasing extra radiation oncology space. It will provide $6 million to support Lifehouse until it becomes fully operational.

 

The nine-storey, state-of-the-art building includes 96 inpatient beds, eight operating suites and procedure rooms and 18 intensive care and high dependency beds.

Source: NSW Govt Media release

 

“Our staff, Board, partners - including builder Brookfield Multiplex, project managers Capital Insight and architects Rice Daubney - and our supporters all deserve to feel extremely proud of what has been achieved.”

Source: Architecture and Design

Morenci’s historic Rex Theatre has survived many changes since its opening in 1916 as the Gem Theatre.

 

Talking pictures came along in the 1920s, and as the black and white television began to appear in more and more homes in the 1950s, movies were produced in color in hopes of luring viewers back to the theater.

 

In the 1980s, theater owners faced competition from the widespread use of the tape cassette as viewers rented a movie and watched it at home with a VCR and television.

 

Then came cable television and the DVD, followed by rental services such as Netflix. Movie watchers had one more reason to stay at home during the past decade with the advent of video streaming direct to home computers, televisions and smart phones.

 

What some call the biggest change since the invention of the “talkie” movie is well underway and this is the one that will pull the plug on the two large projectors at Morenci’s Rex Theatre.

 

Smaller theaters across the country are expected to go out of business when the movie industry converts production entirely to digital. The word “film” will likely stay—after all, people still “dial” a telephone number—but 35 millimeter celluloid will become a relic from the past.

 

When will the digital switch occur?

 

“There’s a lot of conjecture,” said Rex owner Mike Gregerson of Manchester. “It’s accelerated a lot faster than expected.”

 

Reports that 2012 is the final year for film just aren’t true, he said, but the change is coming.

 

“Eventually the Rex will close,” Gregerson said.

 

He knows of fund-raising efforts underway in some cities in an effort to save old, independently owned theaters, but it’s no small undertaking.

 

The conversion to digital costs about $65,000—and much more for 3D capabilities—and Gregerson isn’t so sure that additional money wouldn’t be needed a few years down the road. A standard film projector can operate for 20 or 30 years and still be usable, but what about a digital projector?

 

“Essentially what we’re talking about is a computer,” Gregerson said, and no one operates a computer for 20 years. “How often will it need an upgrade?”

 

Reels and reels

 

Gregerson’s movies arrive by UPS delivery to his workplace. A typical movie takes up five or six reels packed in a heavy-duty box.

 

Each reel contains about 2,000 feet of film and represents about 20 minutes of the movie. Before the show begins, Gregerson combines film from the smaller reels onto a larger one—three per reel for an hour of show time. With two projectors, a movie up to two hours is ready for viewing.

 

Observant movie-goers may notice a dot that appears at the top right of the movie screen about an hour into the film. That’s the projectionist’s cue to turn on the second projector and watch for another dot.

 

When the next dot appears, the operator turns the switch to put the second projector into action and turns off the other projector.

 

There was a time about 10 years ago when distributors tried sending only the two large reels, Gregerson said, but they proved too unwieldy.

 

With digital movies, the 30 to 40 pound box of reels disappears and theaters receive delivery of a hard drive to connect to the projector. Even that method is old-fashioned for some theaters. At a few locations, data is pulled in via a satellite dish.

 

The changeover to digital will save studios an enormous sum of money. Gregerson read that each print of a movie—and hundreds of prints are made for distribution across the country—costs up to $2,000. Digital production costs less than $250.

 

Many larger theaters are involved in a program that helps pay for digital conversion through a rebate. The distributor is passing on some of its savings to theater owners. Skye Cinema in Wauseon is taking advantage of that, reported co-owner Mindy Gleckler. All of its projectors were converted to digital last November.

 

Many of the larger multiplexes are already using digital projectors and the effect on the small theaters is obvious.

 

Until recently there were two distributors for films, Gregerson said, but that’s dropped to just one. Deluxe Entertainment had a depot near Detroit’s Metro Airport and he often drove there to pick up a print. Last year Deluxe subcontracted its 35mm film distribution to Technicolor, and Technicolor turned its film print making over to Deluxe.

 

As digital gains in popularity, there are fewer 35mm films for theaters to share.

 

“It’s a challenge for smaller theaters,” Gregerson said. “The availability of films is much reduced, especially in the last year.”

 

Where in the past there might have been 200 prints for theaters to share for distribution in the state, now there might be only 40. Theaters with film projectors are now vying for a limited number of prints.

 

Where the Rex used to wait three to four weeks for its turn to show a new release, now it often takes seven to eight weeks.

 

“There’s lot of discussion about how important smaller theaters are to distributors,” Gregerson said.

 

He’s read that 50 percent of the U.S. screens now use digital projection, but that accounts for 80 percent of the distributor’s revenue.

 

World-wide distribution is also a concern. After the first-run showings in the U.S., films are sent to other areas such as South America where digital is rare other than in big cities.

 

“There’s a question of whether there will always be a limited number of film copies available,” Gregerson said. “There’s a lot of discussion.”

 

None of the studios have said that film production will end, but he figures eventually one studio will make the announcement and the others will follow.

 

Even if there are a few 35mm copies, the change will bring an end to the small-town movie theater.

 

“It’s kind of a waiting game,” Gregerson said. “For the next two or three years prints will be available. After that, all bets are off. Eventually it will end.”

 

On some Saturday night in the future, Morenci is likely to have its own “last picture show.”

  

IHS Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence Service reports that:

 

2004: film projectors were in 99% of theaters

 

2009: 85%

 

2011: 68%

 

2012: 37% by the end of the year

 

2015: 17%

  

As you might tell by the photo the Rex Theatre did not survive and appears to have been closed for more than 4 years now. The Rex was built in 1916, first named The Gem. That's the same marquee I grew up with in the 1950s. The Rex has four seats on one side of the aisle and five on the other. The theatre seats 216 people. It is air-conditioned during the summer months.

Multiplexe comprenant 10 salles pour 2 647 places, un bowling de 24 pistes et 3 restaurants.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Est

Adresse : 3, rue Victor

Fonction : Cinéma

 

Construction : 2004 → 2006

Architecte : ESTE

Gros œuvre : Van Maercke

 

Niveaux : R+1

Hauteur : ≈15.00 m

Fleur d'Echinopsis multiplex

Thursday monochrome

 

The $30 million Multiplex Sports & Convention Centre (MSCC) was purpose-built in 2017 to cater for all sports, event, conference and meeting requirements, small and large

The multiplex chain of bridges between Honshu and Shikoku. I thought the bridges would be illuminated but it turns out the light show is only on Saturdays, I was there on a Sunday evening :-(.

 

From Wiki:

The Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋 Seto Ōhashi) is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Built over the period 1978–88, it is one of the three routes of the Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands, and the only one with railroad connections included. At 13.1 kilometers (8.1 mi), it ranks as the world's longest two-tiered bridge system.

Crossing the bridge takes about 20 minutes by car or train. The ferry crossing before the bridge was built took about an hour. The non-discounted toll from Kojima, Kurashiki (Okayama Prefecture on the Honshu side) to Sakaide (Kagawa Prefecture on the Shikoku side) is ¥3,500, and vice-versa.

Attractive Clothes for Male !!!

 

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Margolies, John,, photographer.

 

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 1, Route 285, Espanola, New Mexico

 

2003.

 

1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).

 

Notes:

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.

Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1).

Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.

Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

 

Subjects:

Motion picture theaters--2000-2010.

United States--New Mexico--Espanola.

 

Format: Slides--2000-2010.--Color

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110

 

General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01032

 

Call Number: LC-MA05- 1032

 

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boston, massachusetts

early 1970s

 

teradyne c403/c275 1mhz capacitor classification system

 

"C403/C275 1-MHz CAPACITOR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

- Classifies into six tolerance categories

- Designed for production applications with multiplexers or automatic handlers

- Testing rates in excess of 10,000 hr.

- Five terminal connections

- Programmable range and nominal value

- Field proven reliability"

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Forest Cinema, Walthamstow. Opened as the Empire in November 2014, this was the first purpose built complex for the circuit, previous sites having been take-overs. It was designed by Pollard, Thomas, Edwards Architects, who also designed the rest of 'The Scene' building. It has 9 screens, including an Impact Screen, and a large 309 seat auditorium (Screen 9) with a vast curved screen. The Empire circuit went into administration in 2023, and the multiplex was closed and became badly vandalised before a new operator (PD Management Ltd) was found. It reopened as the Forest Cinema in September 2024 and has proved very successful. Two screens are current closed awaiting repair, fittings having had to be reused to repair damage in other areas before opening.

 

London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, North London, England - Forest (Empire) Cinemas, High Street / Hoe Street

July 2025

Cinemas have come a long way, not necessarily the better from the old silver screen days. This multiplex is at Enfield, London on the A10 Great cambridge Road

 

This is a new CineMark cinema multiplex that should open sometime in 2016. The complex is freestanding but the entrance to the cinemas are close to the mall entrance. A Mervyn's store used to be on this site at one time. This looks like one of the NextGen locations to me since I recognize the design (www.flickr.com/photos/fanofretail/17207324979/).

 

Southland Center in Taylor, MI was opened in 1970. The mall was designed by Victor Gruen for the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target).

 

The mall was originally anchored by a Hudson's department store. Later in the 1970s JCPenney was added. Mervyn's (now demolished for a new CineMark muliti-plex) and a Target (on an out-parcel) were added in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s a food court with a massive atrium was added. Hudson's later re-branded as Marshall Field's and again as Macy's in the 2000s. In 2006 Mervyn's left Michigan and Best Buy replaced the food court. Much of the food court was demolished for Best Buy but the atrium still exists in the middle of the store.

 

Since Dayton-Hudson sold off their properties and department stores, this mall is now owned by Rouse Properties. As of 2016, the mall recently got an H&M store and a CineMark cinema multiplex is being built on the old Mervyn's site. The CineMark looks like it is being built in the "NextGen" design and should be open later in 2016. I did notice a couple minor vacancies but they didn't appear like they were empty for too long. Overall, this mall seems to be doing pretty well.

 

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Living: Some days you wake and immediately..., 1980-1982

Bronze, 8 x 10" (20.3 x 5.4 cm)

Jenny Holzer, American, born 1950

 

SOME DAYS YOU WAKE UP AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG IT'S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.

 

Since the late 1970s Holzer has used text as her primary artistic vehicle. Many works have had a public presence; her pithy, ironic, and often disturbing statements have been presented on posters, T-shirts, baseball caps, and a flashing screen in Times Square, New York. In the Living series, she has adopted the bronze plaque in order "to have the look of a voice of authority, of the establishment," she has said.

 

Jenny Holzer's Living: Some days you wake and immediately... was on display in the special exhibition, Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now from November 21, 2007

The UK's first multiplex cinema in the once-vibrant red structure of The Point was a landmark of the New City in the 1980s and 1990s. Now it's a forlorn shadow of its former self, it's future almost certainly set for demolition...

I grow this ephemeral beauty in a pot so I can notice its brief glory and move it temporarily to a spot of prominence, like the diniing room table during meals.

 

The petals will open soon and promptly fall.

 

[UBCBG: Large size available.]

Forest Cinema, Walthamstow. Opened as the Empire in November 2014, this was the first purpose built complex for the circuit, previous sites having been take-overs. It was designed by Pollard, Thomas, Edwards Architects, who also designed the rest of 'The Scene' building. It has 9 screens, including an Impact Screen, and a large 309 seat auditorium (Screen 9) with a vast curved screen. The Empire circuit went into administration in 2023, and the multiplex was closed and became badly vandalised before a new operator (PD Management Ltd) was found. It reopened as the Forest Cinema in September 2024 and has proved very successful. Two screens are current closed awaiting repair, fittings having had to be reused to repair damage in other areas before opening.

 

London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, North London, England - Forest (Empire) Cinemas, High Street / Hoe Street

July 2025

48 Martin Place,

Sydney, NSW, Australia.

 

Architect: H.E Ross H. Ruskin Rowe, Ross & Rowe

Refurbishment: Johnson Pilton Walker Architects (2014 Refurbishment), Norman Disney Young

Construction: Brookfield Multiplex (refurbishment)

Architectural Style: Beaux-Arts

Built: 1925-1928

 

When the head office for the Government Savings Bank of Australia was built in 1928, it was Sydney’s tallest building at twelve stories in height.

It was also the most expensive building built in the city, and housed the world’s largest banking chamber.

50 Martin Place is regarded as one of the finest 20th century bank buildings in the world.

 

Outside was a facade with a solid red granite base, topped with four towering Ionic columns, with pilasters clad in pink-glazed ceramic tiles.

The building was crowned with a two-storey attic, and bizarrely a rooftop rifle range.

Inside on the ground level, the Grand Hall and banking chamber feature marble and scagliola on massive columns.

 

As part of the refurbishment, a two-storey steel dome straddles the atrium.

Designed as a fifth facade, it can be seen from higher surrounding buildings as a lantern at night.

The atrium provides for much of the lighting requirements of the renovated workplaces.

Inside the atrium are two futuristic circular glass lifts, that were awarded Elevator Project of the Year.

During the lift journey, an eight-storey high installation by artist Nick Savvas, called Colours are the Country, can be viewed.

The atrium features event spaces, conference centres, and areas for collaboration

 

The building is now the global headquarters of the Macquarie Bank.

The middle floors of the building provides for a workspace for around 2,000 people.

There is an iconic and colourful interior stairway that connects the different levels.

 

50 Martin Place has received a 6-star Green Star energy rating.

The 2014 refurbishment by JPW Architects won a National Trust Award for adaptive re-use.

An in 2015, they received Australia’s major commercial architecture award - the Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award.

  

POLAND Warszawa (Imielin) - Multiplex Multikino = POLAND Warszawa (Imielin) - Multiplex Multikino

Odeon Cinema, Belfast, Victoria Square. Opened in July 2008 with 8 screens ranging in size from 102 to 465 seats (currently 100 to 394).

 

Belfast. Ulster, Northern Ireland - Odeon Multiplex, Victoria Square Mall

March 2014, image reworked 2024

(29 x 18 x 2,8cm - multiplex, 2012)

This 9 screen cinema opened in December 1995. Originally owned and operated by MGM, it was then operated by Virgin, then UGC and Cineworld.

Cette photo a été prise durant la sortie photo Multiplex #1 à Paris organisée par Phototrend

 

Compte rendu : phototrend.fr/2014/12/compte-rendu-de-la-premiere-sortie-...

Julie Mehretu. (American, born Ethiopia, 1970). Empirical Construction, Istanbul. 2003. Ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 10' x 15' (304.8 x 457.2 cm). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2008 Julie Mehretu

   

Gallery label text

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, November 21, 2007–July 28, 2008

 

For Mehretu, abstraction "allows for thinking of an issue from different perspectives, from many points of view." "I work with source material that I am interested in conceptually, politically, or even just visually," she has explained. "I pull from all of this material, project it, trace it, break it up, recontextualize it, layer one on the other, and envelop it into the DNA of the painting. It then becomes the context, the history, the point of departure. It becomes the place of the painting."

 

This doesn't translate well to a small picture. It's actually as big as a wall and quite stunning.

Margolies, John,, photographer.

 

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 2, Route 285, Espanola, New Mexico

 

2003.

 

1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).

 

Notes:

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.

Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1).

Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.

Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

 

Subjects:

Motion picture theaters--2000-2010.

United States--New Mexico--Espanola.

 

Format: Slides--2000-2010.--Color

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110

 

General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01033

 

Call Number: LC-MA05- 1033

 

Picture taken 3/18/23

Former Regal Cinemas, which was built on the grounds of a former Dillard's, which was originally Higbee's.

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Typical United Artists 80's multiplex. Opened in 1986 or 1987 and closed in 2006, replaced by a newer theater at the other end of the mall.

Multiplex Gemini radio controlled model plane on its way into the moon ..

Typical United Artists 80's multiplex. Opened in 1986 or 1987 and closed in 2006, replaced by a newer theater at the other end of the mall.

Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm 3.5-4.5 A35

Boston, Savoy Cinema. The Savoy is a multiplex converted from a closed Co-operative department store in 2002. It was initially known as the West End, but was renamed in 2017 and has been greatly refurbished in recent years, including the introduction of reclining seats in two of the five screens. This is screen 4.

 

savoyboston.co.uk/SavoyBoston.dll/Home

 

Boston, Lincolnshire, England - Savoy Cinema, West Street

May 2019

Now that Cineworld in Edge Lane (Liverpool) has closed, will there be a new cinema in what will be called "Liverpool Shopping Park"?

Don't hold your breath.

Over the years more multiplexes have been planned for Liverpool than have been built.

 

Having said that, there are no Vues, Reels, or Empires in Liverpool.

It won't be a Cineworld as a new one is under construction in Speke.

多重露出風 梅 × 金柑の木

Imitation Multiplex exposure : ume [plum] blossom × kumquat tree

The Multiplex Cinema has just opened on the edge of town. Micropolis residents have been in dire need of a new cinema as the Sunset Cinema is still on display in the LEGO House as part of my Downtown Mall! Ref: D1689-028

Odeon Theatre, 14 The Parkway, Camden Town , London, Englandf. From Cinema Treasures: "Located in the northwest London inner city suburb of Camden Town. The Gaumont Palace opened 25th January 1937 with Paul Robson in “Show Boat” and James Dunn in “The Two Fisted Gentleman” plus the GB Revels on stage. Built by the Gaumont British Theatres chain as a 2,742 seat, super luxury theatre with full stage facilities, the proscenium was 44 feet wide and the stage 31 feet deep. There were 12 dressing rooms for the artistes and a cafe/restaurant was provided for the convenience of patrons. The architects were William E. Trent, W. Sydney Trent and Daniel Mackay. The auditorium was wide and decorated with horizontal bands of colour on the walls under a stepped ceiling containing very pendulous light fittings. The screen opening had large backlit grilles with a metal meshwork in front. The Compton 4Manual/10Rank organ was opened by Terance Casey and was on a platform which emerged through an archway at the side of the stage rather than up through the pit.

 

Initially known as the Gaumont Palace, Regents Park, it was renamed Gaumont (dropping the Palace name and advertising itself in its actual location in Camden Town) very soon after opening. It became an Odeon 1964 ahead of alterations which created a bingo hall in the stalls with a new 1,198 seat cinema in the circle which opened in 1968. The Odeon closed in 1979, was reopened (reduced in size to 434 seats) as the Gate Cinema from 1980 to 1982. Re-opened again, restored to 1,000 seats as the Parkway Kings Cinema in 1983 with another screen being added in the former restaurant area, known as the Parkway Regency (90 seats). Both were closed in 1993 when the lease was terminated. Odeon took back the building in 1997 and created a 5-screen multiplex in the space. The screens now seat; 403, 88, 226, 88 and 105. Bingo continues in the stalls area."

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