Alvin Cinema

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Alvin Cinema was a venue in Link Road, Camps Bay.

History

The cinema had been created on the site of an old disused power station and tram shed near the Camps Bay beach (originally built between 1899 and 1900).

After a fire destroyed their original venue (the Camps Bay Pavilion), the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society took over and converted the Alvin Cinema. They called their new venue the Phoenix Theatre.

Sources

Fiona Chisholm. 1987. "Will the Phoenix rise again?", Cape Times 18 December, 1987.

https://www.facebook.com/PieterToerienProductions/photos/long-before-theatre-on-the-bay-was-born-link-road-was-home-to-the-alvin-cinema-i/1031574383694775/

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