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WEST STREET – THE TWO CINEMAS

Looking across the cleared site of the Sports Stadium (demolished 1966) on 27 November of that year. At the left is the rear and side of the Odeon Cinema the last of the super cinemas to be built in Brighton during the boom years of the 1930s. Seating about 2000 people, it was opened on 18 December 1937. By the 1970s, however, the days of the large cinemas were numbered, and it closed for good on 17 April 1973, being replaced by the small triple cinemas at Kingswest. Despite the passage of more than six years the cleared site is still a car park!

Image Reference: JG_7_118.tif
Date: 1966
Image Details: Original monochrome print
Size of Original: 145x107
Place: Brighton
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