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Embassy Theatre 97 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW

(PHOTO - City of Sydney Archives).

Castlereagh Street Sydney looking south dated 1960. In the picture is the Embassy Theatre & Biber Furs.

The demise of the Embassy happened very quickly and went virtually unnoticed. Hoyt’s were shedding all their old theatres to embrace the concrete box. Greater Union were having financial problems and did not want another theatre in the city.

It was mutually agreed to sell the property. It was stripped and then left with a ‘For Sale’ sign for two years. Finally it was short leased to an up market shoe store. Hidden behind temporary inner walls and a new facade it was forgotten until it was finally torn down and an expensive shopping arcade built in its place. - Notes by Porter Faulkner

Contributed by Greg Lynch -