Sunshine Theatre

128 Hampshire Road,
Melbourne, VIC 3020

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Sunshine Theatre 128 Hampshire Road, Sunshine Victoria  - Closure 1975

Sunshine Theatre 128 Hampshire Road, Sunshine Victoria – Closure 1975

Located in the west Melbourne district of Sunshine. The Sunshine Theatre was opened with a private screening on 20th March 1925. It was operated by Sunshine Pictures Ltd. The public were admitted the following day. On 16th April 1930 it was equipped for ‘talkies’. In 1931 it was taken over by George Kirby of Kirby Theatres. In 1938 it was refurbished and re-opened as the New Sunshine Theatre.

Later the ‘New’ was dropped and it underwent several operators before its closure in 1975. The building still stands in 2019 in use as a Centre Com computor store – Contributed by Greg Lynch –

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