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The Como Theatre was officially opened on 4 March 1938, by the Chairman of the South Perth Road Board, G.V. Abjornson. [3] It was designed by William T. Leighton, the well known Inter-War architect, and built by W H Ralph and Sons. In the late 1930s Leighton secured a reputation as a leading cinema designer for his work on several Perth cinemas ...
This page is a list of historically significant Art Deco and Moderne buildings in the Perth, Western Australia metropolitan area. Commercial buildings Name Address Date Architect Image Art Deco Shop (Persian Carpet Gallery) 102 Stirling Hwy, Nedlands 1938 W G Leighton Atlas Building 8-10 The Esplanade, Perth 1931 F. G. B. Hawkins Bank of NSW 899 Hay St, Perth 1935 Clock Tower Building & Moon ...
Como is serviced by the Canning Bridge railway station, which is on the Mandurah railway line, and is served by buses as well.. There are four schools in the area. These are the Collier and Como Primary Schools, Como Secondary College (previously Como Senior High School), and Penrhos College, a private all-girls school which has a primary school and a high school.
Ace Cinemas (originally Australian Cinema Enterprises) was founded as one of Australia's first drive-in operators in the 1950s, and had a number of drive-in theatres across metropolitan and rural Western Australia. [2] They opened Perth's first cinema multiplex, the 3 screen Cinecentre, in 1974. [2] [3]
Pages in category "Cinemas in Perth, Western Australia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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Leighton was president of RAIA (WA) between 1951 and 1952 [3] Leighton retired in 1975. [ 2 ] William Leighton worked on a number of Western Australian cinemas including the Windsor Cinema in Nedlands, the Cygnet Cinema in South Perth, [ 4 ] the Princess in Fremantle, and the Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade , [ 5 ] Theatre Royal, Metro, Grand and ...
The growth of Perth's suburban drive-ins then slowed to only five more built during the 1970s with the last drive-in theatre, Aceway, in the suburb of Morley, constructed in 1980. [ 1 ] [ 58 ] In the country areas, the first to open was the Oasis in Geraldton in 1957, and there were only three more built in the 1950s; the Mayfair in Bunbury ...