Where did it go….why did it go….and who did it…?
How could a gigantic landmark movie castle designed like Camelot, the size of a Department Store,
disappear off the face of the Earth from a quiet suburban street?
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF THE GROSVENOR
This was an epic Hollywood Movie Palace festooned with mystical, spooky symbols, faces and shields
in Faustian Paladin Gothic splendour, occupying hexed land bigger than six houses;
displaying creatively financed sumptuous decor and style, saturated with bohemian family money.
A Secret Society of colossal wealth and splendour.
The 1930 opening night was set via Dante to Faust’s Ballet Suite. The 1970 bitter end saw the Devil in the detail come to collect.
What a mistake to break this Underworld Building and its Covenants: with Dante in the decor and financial fury as revenge
The Summer Hill Grosvenor had more to reveal.
The 1970 barbarians should have listened to the music and gazed nervously into the stone faces.
Never was there ever such a high price to pay.
Never had a ruin exacted such retribution.
The dreamscape by Adam Young: The ‘glide’ link
MEDIA LINKS:
Filmmaker Paul Brennan has prepared a new documentary into The Summer Hill Grosvenor Theatre, Sydney’s biggest picture house before its demolition in 1970 - WOLTER PEETERS
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
