Yesterday was #WorldArtDecoDay, so here’s my belated contribution- the fabulous but very short lived Park Theatre in Albert Park, opened 1939, closed 1962, and demolished for a petrol station soon after (its now the Albert park library). It was designed by cinema specialists #TaylorAndSoilleux, who did very inventive work, not your typical streamlined or jazzy deco, and whose only surviving theatre of about 8 is the Rivoli – like that one there’s a lot of curves and circles, though this goes one step better I think, with a spiral in the lobby, and opposing curves in the auditorium, which has bespoke plasterwork details, especially in the (decorative) balconies – one of which hosted the organ, which apparently rotated out of sight behind a curtain when the show started ! And that excellent ticket box. Images from Melbourne Theatres Facebook group, who don’t say where they got them, but presumably from contemporary magazines (I’ve never seen them before).
Storey of Melbourne 