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Plaza Theatre 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC – Final Performance 4 November 1970

The Plaza Theatre closed on 4 November 1970 with “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” and some time later was practically destroyed by the Melbourne City Council with shops and a fountain located in the former auditorium. The ceiling of the auditorium and a false window above the entrance to the auditorium are the only original pieces left …

Extra notes by Historian Eric White – When the Plaza closed in November, Ted Sharry the Plaza’s surviving projectionist, then crossed back over Collins Street to resume operating at the theatre he had left 12 years earlier in order to work at Cinerama – Contributed by Greg Lynch –