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A Modern Movement style movie theatre designed by Stanley Furner and opened in 1931. ** PLAZA, The, Johannesburg. Situated in Rissik Street. ACT brought out Sir Edmund Hillary to give lectures at the Plaza in 1955. **** (Tucker, 1997) | A Modern Movement style movie theatre designed by Stanley Furner and opened in 1931. ** PLAZA, The, Johannesburg. Situated in Rissik Street. ACT brought out Sir Edmund Hillary to give lectures at the Plaza in 1955. **** (Tucker, 1997) | ||
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Although the word plaza derives from plaza a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square, it has been quite popular in South Africa as the name of a cinema or bioscope.
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The Plaza, Bloemfontein
An art deco cinema seating ***, designed by** for ** and copleted in 19**. **** Demolished in 19**
The Plaza Kinema,
An art deco cinema seating 816 people, designed by the firms Kallenbach, Kennedy and Furner and Greatbach and Timlin for Kinemas Limited, completed 1928. **
The Plaza Theatre, Johannesburg
A Modern Movement style movie theatre designed by Stanley Furner and opened in 1931. ** PLAZA, The, Johannesburg. Situated in Rissik Street. ACT brought out Sir Edmund Hillary to give lectures at the Plaza in 1955. **** (Tucker, 1997)
The Plaza Theatre, Uitenhage.
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