Village East End 1-3

100 Bourke Street,
Melbourne, VIC 3000

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DavidZornig
DavidZornig on April 29, 2020 at 10:03 pm

May 16, 1974 print ad as East End Two added courtesy Peter Norrish.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on March 17, 2020 at 10:18 am

The My Fair Lady Theatee, Palladium Theatre, and Embassy Theatre might have been seen in the Australian tv series “Saturday night at the movies”(available on dvd).

curmudgeon
curmudgeon on March 17, 2020 at 7:53 am

Cinema 3 (the former Embassy cinema) suffered a bad reputation from day one, but in fact was a perfectly serviceable house. Given todays seating, the original capacity of approx. 400 would today be considered quite large. One of the main complaints was the entrance to the auditorium at screen end, but double sets of black-out curtains never seemed to be a major concern to me. A very early Espresso Bar in the foyer was a major attraction for the “hip” early 60’s audience it attracted with many important foreign films of the era, e.g. I Vitteloni, Woman Of The Dunes, Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 81/2 and many other European and British hits. When all 3 cinemas came under corporate control the end was near. The former Embassy deserves much more acclaim for the product it introduced to many Melbourne film lovers.

aarggh
aarggh on March 17, 2020 at 3:59 am

Has anyone by any chance found any pics of the Palladium they could post?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on October 21, 2019 at 5:11 am

The former department store building was called Tye.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on April 1, 2019 at 3:06 am

The site is now a private investigator firm(Australian Civil Investigators.