Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565547
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Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Riddrie Supercinema, 1937, James McKissack
One of McKissack's best cinema designs, built for George Smith and James Welsh, pioneer cinema promoters, with 1,750 seats. On an open site, the bulk of the auditorium was partly disguised by good use of the sloping site. The streamlined forms, developing the concept of differing volumes arranged in proportion to each other, built up to the central entrance, topped with the name. Opened in 1938 as the Riddrie Picture House, it became one of George Singleton's Vogue Cinemas in 1950, was sympathetically converted to a bingo hall in 1968 and remains the flagship of NB Bingo. Much of the interior decoration remains intact.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
