Wintergarden Action Committee records, 1980-1987
Wintergarden Action Committee records, 1980-1987
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1980-1987
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MLMSS 8922
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1.17 metres of textual material (7 boxes)
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Contents
Wintergarden Action Committee records relating to the campaign to prevent the demolition of the Wintergarden Theatre and promote its retention as an entertainment venue.
BOX 1
Material concerning the Australian Theatre Historical Society, including issues of its journal ‘Kino’, 1981-1985
Papers relating to a 1985 Inquiry pursuant to S...
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Wintergarden Action Committee records, 1980-1987
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Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2012-2013
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Presented by the Wintergarden Action Committee in 1990
Administrative / Biographical history
The Wintergarden Theatre, in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay, opened on 24th February 1928. Designed by architect Henry White in the ‘picture palace’ cinema style, it had a seating capacity of 2,094. The following year it became the first Sydney suburban theatre to install sound equipment for the ‘talkies’. Over the next 40 years, cinema-going was a...
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MLMSS 8922
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Yezd5bA9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yezd5bA9
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411703
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