Stage Number: MBSH.03.05.02
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Norman Park-Seven-Hills-Camp Hill
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: Off Bennetts Road, near Norman Park Railway Station
Latitude & Longitude: -27.48222222,153.06316667
Time Link: 1920
Map Link: 1920
Image Time Point: 1920
The Norman Park Picture Theatre was an open-air theatre that opened in February 1920 to service the growing local population. Located near the railway station, patrons were probably distracted by the noise from passing locomotives. Nevertheless, the theatre survived until the mid-1950s.
Daily Standard, 7 February 1920.
Interior of Norman Park Picture Theatre, looking to the oblong projection room behind front facade. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Record number: 606741.
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