The Civic
Atmospheric picture-palace theatre with a starlit ceiling, once saved from demolition.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Civic in Auckland starts in nineteen ninety-three, when wrecking crews circled the theatre and a group called Friends of the Civic formed to stop the demolition. It reaches back to nineteen twenty-nine, when entrepreneur Thomas O'Brien opened it as an atmospheric picture palace built in under eight months, with a starlit plaster ceiling and clouds once drifted overhead by a hidden projector. Take a moment in the foyer to look at the seated Buddhas and twisted columns beneath the domed ceilings.
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