Mecca Theatre
14-16 Ormonde Parade,
Sydney,
NSW
2220
14-16 Ormonde Parade,
Sydney,
NSW
2220
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I have just been able to ad this theatre on to google maps in the correct location at 14-16 Ormonde Parade, Hurstville NSW 2220, Australia, and is listed as an Historical Landmark.
If anyone feels like it, please add more pictures there as well to reach a wider audience.
Copy this into google maps >>> 24J3+P4 Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia or Search for Savoy theatre
Opened with “Beloved Enemy”, and “3 married men”.
August 4th, 1937 grand opening ad in photo section.
My family lived three doors down from the Savoy towards Hastings Deering,later NRMA.I can’t see how its' address could have been No.1,we were almost in the middle of that street at No.12,there were several shops before the corner towards Penshurst.Between us and Savoy,there was a large guesthouse(ex Doctor),and a hamburger joint,1943-47.One of the very top Theatres in Sydney suburbs,where I saw ‘Song of the South’ in ‘46,and where a dog ran amok and was shot by police in the backyard of the guesthouse.Just by chance I was roaming around in '95 and found the pile of bricks.
What a fantastic cinema it was. I still remember movies I saw there in the 1950s. Look at that area of Hurstville now, and weep at what “ progress” has brought!
A vintage photo of the Savoy Theatre in the 1930’s:
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