Opened in July 1999 as Queen Street Cinemas, with 13 screens, including 1 used as an Imax, and closed in April 2002. Reopened as Event Cinemas Queen Street in 2011.
The Federal Theatre is part of the Jervis Bay Royal Australian Naval Base(Collrge), and opened on 7/11/1911. The base closed in 1930 due the Great Depression. Movie screenings in Federal Theatre started in(circa 1930’s) and ended in(circa 1960?). The Royal Australian navy moved back and reopened the College in 1967(still operating as a College). 307 seats.
Opened in 1938.
Opened in July 1999 as Queen Street Cinemas, with 13 screens, including 1 used as an Imax, and closed in April 2002. Reopened as Event Cinemas Queen Street in 2011.
Odd name!! Why was it called Crooked Mile?
I assume there was a lift or lifts to get up to the cinemas too?
Northern most cinema in North America!!
Is it in the centre of town?
Looks like the entrance(or exit?) road is still there too?
The Chuck Norris movies were called “Missing in action”.
The building is now an eyecare centre(Sunglass World).
Is there anything on the site now?
Also been called Capitol 3 cinemas. 3 screens. Screen 1 – 510 seats, screen 2 – 302 seats, screen 3 – 315 seats.
Opened on 28/10/2009.
The Federal Theatre is part of the Jervis Bay Royal Australian Naval Base(Collrge), and opened on 7/11/1911. The base closed in 1930 due the Great Depression. Movie screenings in Federal Theatre started in(circa 1930’s) and ended in(circa 1960?). The Royal Australian navy moved back and reopened the College in 1967(still operating as a College). 307 seats.
The site is now a parking lot. Was there someone callef Amy Lou?
Why the name Broken Bow?
Why the name King Cotton?
Odd name!!
I think the site is now car yard(Joel’s Auto Sales INC), a laundromat(American Mega Laundromat) and a church(MT of Salvation).
Was there a chapel called Queen Chapel?
The ticket booth(and entrance road?) may still be there be there, used as a(car wash?)?
Is any of the drive-in still there?
Interesting concept and name!! When did it open and close? Is it still at all, unused?
The site is now an office building?
Just to the left of the streetview photo above, it looks like the ticket booths(and entrance road?) are still there used by the Wells Fargo bank?
The theatre was seen briefly in “Billy Connolly Tracks across America.