Metro Crows Nest

360 Pacific Highway,
Sydney, NSW 2065

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johngleeson
johngleeson on December 15, 2012 at 12:03 am

Information from caths.org.au – (Cinema and Theatre Historical Society) CROWS NEST – Queens cinema 1913 Demolished 28/05/1983 Alternative names > Sesqui (late 1930’s)

                Metro (1953)
                                Dendy (1977)
                                Village (1974-75)
johngleeson
johngleeson on February 11, 2012 at 8:39 pm

From the North Sydney municipal archives: Panels commissioned by Sydney County Council and mounted on George Street facade of the Queen Victoria Building for Australian Sesqui-centenary celebrations in 1938. The panels were designed by artist Edmund Harvey and the sculptors Neville Bunning and Morris Helsen. The panels were purchased for the newly refurbished Queens Picture Theatre, renamed the Sesqui Theatre at Crows Nest in 1938. The cinema was renamed the Metro and then the Dendy. In 1983 the cinema was demolished and the panels relocated to the Holroyd Centre.

GaryHinton
GaryHinton on June 27, 2002 at 11:35 pm

The Amusu Theatre was built run and owned by my Great Uncle and Grandfather Amos Edward Hinton and Arthur Stephen (Ash) Hennesey. If you have any information on the building or the history of this theatre could you please contact us ()

PaulBrennan
PaulBrennan on January 22, 2002 at 3:54 am

This is the Amusu Theatre, Maroubra, which closed in 1958. Mr.Jackson refers to the Sesqui Theatre, Crows Nest, opened in 1938 called so because this date was Sydney’s 150th (sesqui) anniversary. The Amusu was a B-grade cinema favoring action pics and teen audiences.