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Rosemount Gardens
360 Fitzgerald Street,
North Perth,
WA
6006
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Rosemount Gardens 360 Fitzgerald Street, North Perth, WA
The first continuing screenings in North Perth were at the Rosemount Picture Gardens.
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The Rosemount Gardens opened on a site in Angove St, next to the Rosemount Hotel on the southern side of the intersection of Angove and Fitzgerald Streets, in 1920. This venue had a brick street frontage, containing the bio-box. Inside, the whole flat seating area was grassed, with hard seats along the left side and the front, and deckchairs inside a fenced area in the middle and to the right. Babies in prams would be parked along the aisles, next to their parents.
There was no concession building: patrons went out to local shops if they wished to purchase refreshments. Male ushers showed patrons to their places, though seats were not numbered.In 1924, a theatre was built to operate in conjunction with the gardens, but not next door to it: the theatre was at 464 Fitzgerald St, on the opposite side of the road, facing the Angove St intersection. It had a lesser hall, hired out for meetings even while the films were going on in the theatre.
The Picture Gardens closed in 1960
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