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Jim Sincock at the Ozone.

With further inroads being made by
television, closures of many cinemas
throughout the country began. The Ozone
ceased business in Gawler on May 27th 1967
and the property was sold.

Whilst the Murray Street frontage continued
to contain shops, in October 1969 the theatre
stage-house beyond the proscenium was
demolished and the entire auditorium space
was converted to house the Scholz Chemicals
feedstock factory with a new entrance from Concert in the Ozone with curtained CinemaScope stage behind.
Carlton Street.
OZONE STAFF:
Several Gawler families had a long The Ozone stage - house is demolished for conversion into a factory.
association with the Ozone Theatre. Brenton
Rusby’s father who started at the open-air
Lyric, continued into the mid-fifties with
time at the Astral and Regal/Ozone.

At the Ozone, Brenton himself commenced
as an assistant projectionist and remained
with the cinema until a few months before
its closure. At one stage Brenton’s father
was relief projectionist with Brenton as
his assistant. Brenton’s wife Coral was an
usherette and his brother-in-law was an
usher, all in the same period.

Roy Bulloch, who took the place of his father
before him, was fireman and then usher till
the end. Mrs. Zucher managed the candy bar
for many years until its closure. Fred Parnell,
was also a fireman until the reduction in
seating capacity.

Managers were regularly circulated through
the circuit and some at Gawler were Messs.
H. Chapman, S. Stevens, H. Eden, T. Harvey
and B. Plume.

The Ozone in 2012, housing a restaurant behind the front shops.

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