His Majesty's Theatre opened on 6 February 1911. Charles Blackbourn, building contractor, is in the black suit on the left, standing on the scaffold. Blackbourn's building firm collapsed during the depression, after which he drove a taxi while his...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1910
Taken from the Public Library on the corner of The Square and Main Street, looking across to the Downtown multi-storey car park building that fronts Main Street. The Downtown retail and cinema complex opened in 1990, with its main entrance on Broa...
Creator: Ian Matheson
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1993
The Meteor movie theatre was built by Maurice Millar of Millar and Giorgi, a menswear store. It was opened in the era of the 'talkies', in September 1937, on the eastern side of The Square. It had a capacity of 940 and was considered one of the mo...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1937
The State Theatre Foyer with an advertisement for the film "3 Coins in a Fountain". This negative comes from the Elmar Collection - a large series of semi-identified and unidentified images from the 1930s-1970s.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1955
The film being advertised here is the 1924 melodrama Lilies of the Field, staring Corinne Griffith and based on a play by William Hurlburt. The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site once occupied by the Manawatū Stables. The first talking...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1929
The Meteor theatre was located on the west side of The Square, it operated from 1937-1964. This photograph shows the exterior of the building in the late 1950s. Gregory Peck starred in Moby Dick in 1956. Seating capacity was for 940 - 990 people, ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1957 to 1959
the building at centre is the Chief Post Office of Palmerston North. It was completed and opened in 1906, on the site of the previous one, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main Street, and the towe...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940
The Meteor movie theatre was built by Maurice Millar of Millar and Giorgi, a menswear store. It was opened in the era of the 'talkies', in September 1937, on the eastern side of The Square. It had a capacity of 940 and was considered one of the mo...
Creator: K H Shea
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1940
The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site once occupied by the Manawatu Stables. The Palace continued operation until 9 February 1935 when the theatre was badly gutted by fire. It was not until 1936 that the theatre reopened after exte...
Creator: Unknown
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1920
This photograph shows cars and pedestrians on Coleman Mall (then Coleman Place). The Palace Theatre was built in 1915 on the site formally occupied by the Manawatu Stables. The first talking pictures to be shown in Palmerston North opened here in ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This group, photographed upstairs at the Palace Theatre, played at both the Kosy and Palace Theatres. From left. Back: C Fleming; O D Huse; W Carbine; A Berryman. Front: CE Bell; Miss S Hancock; G Raffles. Walter Leet later replaced C Fleming on ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 1919
Initially built as the Palace Movie Theatre in 1915, later the Mayfair Theatre, the rebuilt Odeon Movie Theatre opened 10 December 1965. It closed and was demolished in 1990.
Creator: Matt Ryan
Place: George Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1988
The $40,000 Coleman Mall redevelopment was opened on 27 July 1973 by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr B.G.C. Elwood. The work was done by Palmerston North City Council workmen except for the asphalting of the parking and pedestrian areas. This vi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Coleman Mall, Palmerston North
Date: February 1973
Looking down Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North, from the corner of The Square and Broadway, showing Christmas decorations strung across the street. The photograph features the three buildings that comprised Collinson and Cunninghame Ltd, establish...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date: 1971