| The
Lido theatre along Kee Ann road in Malacca sadly burnt down
in April 2012. At the time it was being used as a supermarket.
The original building dates from the early 1920’s and
was known as the Eldorado cinema.
The main central hall section of
the theatre might have completely burnt to the ground, but
luckily the two far ends of the building had survived, which
included the old projector room.
A quick scramble
up the wall and through the hole in the brick work and I
was in. Sadly, not much was left inside this room but for
and old wooden projectionists table and a floor littered
with old rolls of now yellowed black and white film. A good
assortment of tobacco tins were also jumbled in amongst
the mess which probably belonged to the former projectionist.
As I pocked around in the small room I was startled when
an argument between 3 people erupted close by! Vagrants
were living in one of the old toilet blocks on the ground
floor. With not much else to see here and not wanting to
be discovered, I gingerly climbed back out of the hole in
the wall leaving the vagrants to fight over their missing
cigarettes situation.
Update : The
Lido was completely demolished in November 2015. It makes
way for yet another shopping mall. |
