{"id":721,"date":"2012-01-12T22:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2013-11-16T23:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:33:52","slug":"la-scala-abc-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/miscellaneous\/la-scala-abc-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"La Scala \/ ABC Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clydebank’s La Scala cinema opened in 1938 – seating 2,648, it was described as the pride of Clydebank, and survived the Clydebank Blitz unscathed.<\/p>\n

Here it is in the 1950s:<\/p>\n

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It became an ABC cinema, then closed as a cinema in 1984. Subdivided, the top half became a snooker club, the bottom half a bingo hall. I only explored the top half:<\/p>\n

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The pride of Clydebank is now in a sorry state.<\/p>\n

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Up higher, to the battery room:<\/p>\n

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Cabinets for two mercury vapour rectifiers:<\/p>\n

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The projection room:<\/p>\n

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Because of the odd way it was subdivided, the snooker club used one of the original entrances as a beer cellar:<\/p>\n

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