Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
Seating capacity: 1,060
Address: 280 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Some sources have 533 Jaffe Road as its address, which is on the south side of the same current building the World Trade Centre.
Palace Theatre (Causeway Bay) operated during the period Novebmer 14, 1979 September 1975* - April 24, 1994. * Correction as per PaulO's note - thanks.
Sources:
- Cinema Treasures: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/20576
- Talk Cinema: https://talkcinema.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/碧麗宮的結束與記憶/
- Hong Kong Theatres Association Limited: http://hktaorg.com/en/cinemahistory.php
- Wikipedia's list of theatres no longer operating: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%B7%B2%E7%B5%90%E6%…
Photos that show this Place
1976
1985
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Comments
Temporary closure?
I was just surfing on Facebook when coming across somebody's post (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1059931817376438/permalink/1344299452273005/) asking for information on why this theatre stopped operating only two days after it opened. The post attached a newspaper clipping from 17/11/1979 giving arrangements for refund of tickets. It does not say for what reason they must stop all operations and when they would open again. Down the comments section the poster said it closed on the third day (16/11) and reopened on the fifth (18/11). The first film screened was Alien.
Wonder if anyone has any idea?
breskvar
Below is the screen capture of the newspaper clipping, in Chinese, from that Facebook post: