The Royal Cinema - 215 Louis Botha Avenue Orange Grove

The Cinema was originally called ‘The Royal’ and built in 1939 by the architectural firm Kallenbach, Kennedy & Furner and was located on the corner of Tenth and Louis Botha Avenue. Corrugated iron roof of original Bioscope building is still visible. Diagonally opposite was the suburban cinema called the ‘Astra’ creating a suburban cinema node along Louis Botha Avenue in Orange Grove from the 1930s to 1950s showing all the current Hollywood movies of the time.