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This passage-way (top left)
remains something of a puzzle.
Originally labelled Roxy Maidstone it
was not used in the article on the
Roxy (Issue 38) because the photo
shows a curved wall and the plan of
the Roxy on the Health Department
file does not show curved walls.
Details of carpet, lights and cornice
show that it was not the Time Balwyn.
Another suggestion, the Waverley
East Malvern is also ruled out because
the plan of the Waverley shows only
right-angle surfaces.
Alan Windley once spoke to Roc
Kirby about the identification of this
picture and Roc confirmed that it was
the Roxy. The owner should be one
person who can accurately identify a
theatre.
This picture (above left) also ran in
Issue 38. Labelled by the Latrobe
Library as ‘Sweets counter, probably
in a theatre’ Steve Walsh again put his
memory to work and suggested that it
was the lolly shop of the original
Dendy Brighton. The position of the
end wall to the front glass doors
would fit the Dendy (see arrow).
The photos in CinemaRecord 39 of
an upstairs foyer as background to a
shampoo treatment of lounge chairs
(left) drew a blank until Steve Walsh
suggested that it might be the Ascot
Ascot Vale. The Archive has no
pictures of the Ascot, so this becomes
the tentative identification and will
stand until challenged.

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