old cinemas

BlitzKrieg

Are there any old cinemas still standing around Ireland? I'm talking about the old 1 screen - 3 screen picture houses like this: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/37734 or is this the last of it's kind still standing?

McLoughlin

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Are there any old cinemas still standing around Ireland? I'm talking about the old 1 screen - 3 screen picture houses like this: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/37734 or is this the last of it's kind still standing?

Wexford Savoy Cineplex is still standing though closed in 2008.

Lionel Messy

Is that kip in Rathmines still around? I remember seeing Lost in Space there as a kid. Proper kip.

Mitch Connor

McLoughlin wrote: »

Wexford Savoy Cineplex is still standing though closed in 2008.

Same with Greystones cinema - building still there, as is some of the equipment afaik, but closed down a good few years ago.

Roar

Same with the Capitol cinema in cork, still there, has been closed for a number of years with no work done to it - it was supposed to have been demolished and made into retail units/offices/apartments. I'd love to go in there for a wander around, to see if there's any equipment, reels of film, posters etc floating around. It'd be creepy as all hell too.

Back when I was a teenager I worked in a shop in town, which was underneath the old Lee cinema on Winthrop street. I went up there once and the atmosphere was incredible - it was so steep down from the top of the stairs to the screen, some of the old seats were still there, but no projection equipment sadly. Great to see it though.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

The one on Naas Main Street is still standing, I remember screen 2 was literally a 14 inch TV !!!

Bizarrely it is a church now !

ciarang85

dingle cinema is a one screen-er http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Daingean_(Dingle),_Phoenix_Cinema_-_geograph.org.uk_-_256978.jpg

Its still open by the way

bullvine

I went to a cinema in Killorglin in Kerry in 1989 while on hols to see License to Kill and also The Last Crusade. The funny thing was it was in the back garden of a terraced house on the main street. You had to walk through the hall/kitchen and down to the end of the back garden into the Cinema. The last time we went, the dad as I remember, was having his dinner at the kitchen table and around 50 people were going through. Surprisingly it was actually quite a decent screen as I recall. Not sure if its still goin!

BlitzKrieg

bullvine wrote: »

I went to a cinema in Killorglin in Kerry in 1989 while on hols to see License to Kill and also The Last Crusade. The funny thing was it was in the back garden of a terraced house on the main street. You had to walk through the hall/kitchen and down to the end of the back garden into the Cinema. The last time we went, the dad as I remember, was having his dinner at the kitchen table and around 50 people were going through. Surprisingly it was actually quite a decent screen as I recall. Not sure if its still goin!

Sorry to resurrect this thread, But I was wondering if anyone else has similar memories of small unusual cinema's like the above? Perhaps something like temporary summer cinemas in town halls or music halls or something?

SimonLynch

Lionel Messy wrote: »

Is that kip in Rathmines still around? I remember seeing Lost in Space there as a kid. Proper kip.

The Stella, building is still there. The building of the New Sandford in Ranelagh is still there, it's Wong's restaurant now. The Academy on Pearse Street is still standing, closed in the mid 80s. Film Centre was on O'Connell Bridge where part of Q Bar is now.

Phoenix Park

Lionel Messy wrote: »

Is that kip in Rathmines still around? I remember seeing Lost in Space there as a kid. Proper kip.

The Stella was cool. I loved those old cinemas. Your feet used to stick to the floor there was so much sticky fizzy drinks on it.

Dublin had some great cinemas. Used to love the Carlton. I remember seeing Batman on opening night with my dad in it in 1989 i think it was when it used to be packed. Not sure how i got in , i was only ten years old and the Cert was 15's i think!. The Classic in Harold's Cross was also great, the Adelphi there on Abbey St deserves a mention. Such cinemas closing was a real downside to the fancy new multiplexes coming in. At least The Savoy and The Screen survived, i would HATE if the only options some day were the fancy Cineworld type places with their 80 screens and glow-in-the-dark €5 slush puppie drinks. I tend to only go to them when a film i want to see is not in the Light House, Screen, Savoy or IFI.

EDIT: i just googled Batman, it was the first film to be given 12's cert in the cinema, but then was upgraded to 15's on video

Technocentral

SimonLynch wrote: »

The Stella, building is still there. The building of the New Sandford in Ranelagh is still there, it's Wong's restaurant now. The Academy on Pearse Street is still standing, closed in the mid 80s. Film Centre was on O'Connell Bridge where part of Q Bar is now.

Opened as a cinema in early 90's again, don't know for how long but I saw "Hush A Bye Baby" there, quite a good Irish film about abortion with Sinead O' Connor playing a part in it.

OldeCinemaSoz

The Stella, Rathmines is still standing as is
The New Sandforth, Ranelagh, if only as one of
those new super pubs.

The Classic, Terenure, is there too. I think it's a
showroom for something.

Down here the one locally is very decrepit and the
one in Arklow seems to be an eysore on the main street.

But... all in all, they're very much ALL STILL STANDING.

:cool:

Phoenix Park

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

The Stella, Rathmines is still standing as is
The New Sandforth, Ranelagh, if only as one of
those new super pubs.

The Classic, Terenure, is there too. I think it's a
showroom for something.

Down here the one locally is very decrepit and the
one in Arklow seems to be an eysore on the main street.

But... all in all, they're very much ALL STILL STANDING.

:cool:

I know the buildings themselves are standing but not much use to the cinema goer if they are closed down surely..

Rabies

The orignal 3 screen cinema in Thurles is still there. Closed a couple of years ago ( 3yrs I think) when the new 5 screen cinema opened up over the shopping centre

BlitzKrieg

Rabies wrote: »

The orignal 3 screen cinema in Thurles is still there. Closed a couple of years ago ( 3yrs I think) when the new 5 screen cinema opened up over the shopping centre

it's the cinema that's linked in the OP.

johnny_ultimate

No idea if it's still there / current condition, and even less idea of what it's like inside, but the Abbey cinema in Wicklow was standing and abandoned as of a few years ago.

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI&regno=16003112

mikemac1

There's one in Fairview in Dublin

Well I don't know if it is there anymore, was there a few years back

Tiny screen, I think it was hired out for previews

LittleBook

The Ambassador in Dublin used to be a one screen cinema and, if I recall correctly, the interior was fantastic.

Rabies

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

it's the cinema that's linked in the OP.

Never clicked

OldeCinemaSoz

LittleBook wrote: »

The Ambassador in Dublin used to be a one screen cinema and, if I recall correctly, the interior was fantastic.

The last film i saw there was STARSHIP TROOPERS...

it was on it's dying legs then.

RIP

Although, from word of mouth, HER time will be SOON...

FlashD

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

Although, from word of mouth, HER time will be SOON...

Going in with a bulldozer then?

goose2005

There's also the Phoenix in Dingle.

t|nt|n wrote: »

The one on Naas Main Street is still standing, I remember screen 2 was literally a 14 inch TV !!!

Bizarrely it is a church now !

I think that's an exaggeration, but it was very small. And all the seats were on the same level, so if you sat at the back you had to look over everyone's heads/

p to the e

FlashD wrote: »

Going in with a bulldozer then?

Thought i remember reading that it was going to be turned into a library.

UnknownSpecies

This two screen cinema is still standing in Midleton. Closed down about 7 years ago I think?

Duggy747

The old Ballyhaunis cinema was the go-to place for us Roscommon folk since the county didn't have one. It finally got one a few months ago, 1st one in decades since the one in my town. That place was condemned and I found a full reel of Midnight Express in it.

Think it was a 2 or 3 screen cinema. Seats were dusty as fùck, you could kill time just slapping the seats and watching an insane amount of dust rise from them, and it took aaaaaages for a new release to be shown there.

Manky aul place though I remember seeing Jurassic Park in it, I think it was demolished last year.

OldeCinemaSoz

The cinema in Greystones is still standing.

The one which featured in one of them classic
FATHER TED episodes.

What was it showing? the passion of st tiberius or something?!?!

With the 'aul one from the riordans going on about the crying game
outside while the lads were chained up.

classic.

SimonLynch

Technocentral wrote: »

Opened as a cinema in early 90's again, don't know for how long but I saw "Hush A Bye Baby" there, quite a good Irish film about abortion with Sinead O' Connor playing a part in it.

Didn't know that, last film I saw there was Cathal Black's Pigs, about squats on Henrietta street (I think)

Judgement Day

This pic of the now disused "Central Cinema" in Rathkeale, Co.Limerick appeared in another thread today and is surely a fine example of Art Deco cinema architecture.



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krudler

Judgement Day wrote: »

This pic of the now disused "Central Cinema" in Rathkeale, Co.Limerick appeared in another thread today and is surely a fine example of Art Deco cinema architecture.

sweet jesus imagine going to the cinema in that town when it was open