Golden City Theatre - news article on its Sale for redevelopment - September 7, 1956
Five years after its opening, the theatre was sold for redevelopment, buiding, seats, equipments including I think the kitchen sink. Briefly some highlights in the article: appraised at about HK $1 million, it was scooped up by a bidder in three minutes for $ 1.31M the only bid; land area 13,742 sq ft; buyer to acknowlege rights of current tenants to continue to use other areas. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1951
Golden City Theatre (Wan Chai) / 金城戲院 (1951-58); and the photo was taken in 1951 its first year of operation. Luk Kwok Hotel / 六國 is on the right side of the theatre looking from the water.
On Flickr atrributed to the junction of Austin and Nathan Roads, but this one shows the junction of Nathan and Kimberley Roads. The rounded building is Princess Theatre, the left one is Miramar Hotel. The movie showing was released 1960-12-23, so the date is ok. <Read more ...>
Yik Chi Theatre, Tiu Keng Leng. Considering the opened windows and movie posters on the wall, the theatre was likely still operating at the time of this photo. However, my second thought is that the posters are old, and upstairs have been converted to living quarters.
