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Tarzan the Mighty.

Above: April 1954. Below: October 1952.
End of an Era
The Paramount Theatre would show Douglas Garland Rattray passed away
its last film on 30 October 1965. Mr on December 15 , 1982.
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Rattray said that...he regretted making
the decision but felt he had reached the The Paramount was demolished around
time of retirement. 1973 and the property sold in March
1977 to Austral Motors Holdings.
Competition from nearby Olympia
Theatre (revamped as the Crest Cinema), The land became part of a used car
as well as the new Skyway Drive-In yard and is still used as such today with
Theatre and rural television didn’t help! Bundaberg Motor Group utilising the
site which once housed this historic and
much loved building. H

Acknowledgements:
Bundaberg Regional Libraries and the Picture
Bundaberg Collection. Lib News v2. No.2,
Summer 2010/2011,

Bundaberg Regional Libraries.
http://library.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/heritage/libnews
Reference material from: Sue Gammon: Arts
Bundaberg; Enid Cullen; Henry Oswald; Neville
Rackermann; Joy Covey; Brisbane Courier;
Trove; Bundaberg Daily News and Daily Mail.
Additional material:
Kevin Adams & G. Turnbull.
Below: November 1946.

Dad and Dave come to Town - 1939.

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