Stage Number: MBSH.03.06.14
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Greenslopes-Coorparoo
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 28 Old Cleveland Road, Greenslopes
Latitude & Longitude: -27.4985,153.04519444
Time Link: 1930
Map Link: 1936
Image Time Point: 1936
This cinema opened in 1930, becoming one of many movie theatres scattered through the Brisbane suburbs. ‘Talkies’ had recently arrived and the cinema industry was booming. The Alhambra was of the ‘tropical theatre’ style, popular in Queensland during 1920s and 1930s, in which timber lattice and fretwork was used throughout the interior to conceal high level windows that provided ventilation not used in standard cinema design. The Alhambra theatre survived into the 1960s.
Brisbane Courier, 19 March 1930
Interior view of the Alhambra Theatre, ca.1930. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Record number: 103841.
Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.
