The Empire Theatre opened in 1909 and continued operation until 1952. It was located at 61 Grote Street, just a little up from Moonta...

Image Courtesy State Library of SA [B 71977] Image courtesy of Trove (The Register, 4th Jan 1928) On Tuesday the 24th January 1928, Dan...

Exterior view of State Theatre, Hindley Street, Adelaide, Image courtesy of State Library of South Australia. Photo; Vic Grimmett c 1957...

Exterior – Star Theatre, 1954 Now called the Capri Theatre and still thankfully very much running as a picture theatre. Today it is run...

The Register , dated Saturday 26th March 1910, has a report of a fire at Best’s Canvas Pictures which had taken place on the previous...

On the 5th December, 1908 Adelaide’s first permanent Picture Theatre opened in Hindley Street (Walker 1995, p. 15). Owned by T J West,...

By chance came across this photo on the State Library of South Australia’s Flickr page, and I thought I needed to share it. The photo is...

Image courtesy State Library of Sth Australia ([B 5517] The Ozone Theatre, St Vincent Street in Port Adelaide. It was designed in an...

Semaphore Wondergraph c 1930 Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+5541/3...

Programme from the June 4, 1917. West’s Olympia Theatre was located in Hindley Street it was owned by T J West and in 1917 it was located...

This article appeared in The Advertiser 22nd October, 1928. The then Managing Director of Hoyts, Mr G F Griffith talks about the upcoming...

The Theatre Royal c 1890s. Image courtesy of State Library of Sth Australia. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+2909 19th...

Best’s Pictures opened in October 1909, above is an article which appeared in The Register newspaper on the 25th October 1909. It states...