Fake History of The Forum Theatre, Melbourne

The very Draconian Melbourne State Theatre now known as the Forum! Gothic goolie and dragonieeeee built in 1year in 1927! No construction photos online of course apart from one crappy blurred out what looks like 1970s newspaper article.

The "official" history lie:
The sites of Morning Post-Herald Building (on Flinders Street) and State Migration Office (on Russell Street) were purchased by Rufe Naylor's Empire Theatres Ltd of Sydney with the goal of building a 'live' theatre sister to his Empire in Quay Street, Sydney.[2] The site was subsequently purchased by Managing Director of Union Theatres, Stuart F. Doyle in 1928[3] for the future development of the State Theatre.

The building features a Moorish Revival exterior, including minarets and a clock tower. When it opened in February 1929, the cinema had the largest seating capacity in Australia, holding 3,371 people. A dual-console Wurlitzer organ of style 270 was installed, the first to be built "west of Chicago", featuring 21 rows of pipes and a grand piano attachment and oboe horn.[1] The organ was removed from the theatre in 1963, and subsequently installed in the Moorabbin Town Hall (now Kingston City Hall) by members of the Victorian Division of the Theatre Organ Society of Australia.[4] #mudflood #tartaria #HistoryIsALIE #tartarianmelbourne #tartarianaustralia