Coliseum Cinema Fire

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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Rucola » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:46 pm

I was passing by this evening and noticed the front of the building (where it was covered by the County Bingo sign) is black. Is that fire damage or was the bingo frontage added before the rest of the building was cleaned?
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Mori » Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:35 am

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Top of the corner tower/rook has been lost :|, hardly worth saving the rest.

Me thinks the whole lot will be flatend as first anticipated. Sad days indeed. :(


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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby nodrog » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:37 am

Did anyone manage to get a photo of the frontage with the corrugated iron taken off, but when there was more left to see of the upper portion than this ?

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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby nodrog » Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:27 am

Evening Times: Going, Going Gone

He said that while public safety issues were paramount, the building had "resolutely failed to collapse" into the street in the three weeks that Eglinton Street was closed. "There would have been plenty of time, if the will had been there, to have propped up the frontage while the rest of the building was demolished, and retain that for any future redevelopment, as has been done successfully elsewhere."


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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Fossil » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:30 pm

I wish they would hurry up! that road being shut is a fucking knightmare
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby BrigitDoon » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:04 pm

Yup. :roll:
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Shardonnay » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:16 pm

My friend nearly through the sat nav oot the car trying to work out which direction to take. Kept redirecting us back there ::): I have no sense of direction so found it hilarious.
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Fossil » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:56 pm

its a bottleneck for the moment.
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby StevenJ » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:22 pm

nodrog wrote:Did anyone manage to get a photo of the frontage with the corrugated iron taken off, but when there was more left to see of the upper portion than this ?


like this?

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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby gap74 » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:27 am

Nice pic - what a shame that the first time that facade sees the light of day in 46 years is when it's smoke-blackened and awaiting demolition...
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby nodrog » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:41 pm

Coliseum Cinema Past Present special...

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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Rucola » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:46 pm

Brilliant post Nodrog.
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby MadMac » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:33 am

Incidentally, the film "His First Command" was released in the US in late 1929, so that would put the first pic at 1930.
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Digitographer » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:49 pm

It's astonishing how the addition of the two corrugated steel facades (above the main entrance) at different times, totally ruined the look of the whole building.

The place looks amazing in that first photo - thanks for posting that one..
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Re: Coliseum Cinema Fire

Postby Lucky Poet » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:39 pm

Aye, cheers Nodrog. Good stuff :)

It's a shame that facade couldn't have been reused. That's the way it goes, though...
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