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The Strand was equipped with the “latest
Arched entrance
to the Strand. improvements on the lines of the southern
picture palaces”. Modern operating machinery
was installed, and the operator was Stan
Clapham from Sandgate.
By 1934, the Gladstone Town Council
had completed the construction of a new
Gladstone Town Hall in Goondoon Street.
Built using low interest loans and subsidised
cheap labour during the Depression years,
the new hall immediately became the hub of
community life.
In April 1922, the Strand Open-Air Picture It was in 1935 that Trevor Upton obtained
Theatre was built in Goondoon Street by a lease of the Town Hall to show pictures,
JT Ryalls to entertain the public with silent which were then screened three times a week.
movies. Screenings at this early open-air In the same year that Upton started screening
venue were often hazardous affairs due to at the Town Hall a new theatre, called the
thunderstorms and passing flying foxes. Embassy, opened.
Original Town Hall.
Pictures at the 1934 Town Hall.
On stage at the Town Hall - 1950s. “Ladies In Retirement” at the Town Hall. V.Gill.
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