Olympia Cinema
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This is not the Olympia. Compare the width and seating style with the photo of the pros. I am fairly sure that the above is the dreadful Adelaide, Benwell which was closed by ABC soon after Union Cinemas came under their control.
Terry, Frank Manders book “Cinemas of Newcastle” (2005 edition) page 29, has a photograph of the auditorium of the Adelaide Picture Hall, showing a small balcony with a decorative plaster front.
Terry, the 1991 edition of Frank Manders book “Cinemas of Newcastle, page 25 has the same photograph of the front of the decorative balcony of the Adelaide Picture Hall. That same edition has a description of the Olympia Cinema which states that tip-up seats were installed in all parts of the hall and there were four sections of seating on a sloping floor. The above disputed photograph is not in either edition of Manders books.