Elmo cinema
The Elmo Kino was a cinema operated from 1950 to 2012 in the city of Salzburg in the Elisabeth-Vorstadt district . When it was founded, it was the city's first major cinema.
history
The forerunner of the Elmo Cinema was built in 1947 in the gymnasium of the Plain elementary school in Plainstrasse, not far from where it will later be located. The subsequently re-established cinema next to the Lehener Brücke was founded in 1950 by Alfred Morawetz . The name Elmo is made up of the first letters of the first and last name of the wife of the founder El isabeth Mo rawetz. The hall held a good 1000 visitors and had two side boxes. The cinema opened on February 25, 1950 with a screening of the film Encounter with Werther .
In 1972 a second cinema was built and in 1976 the Elmo Cinema was expanded to four halls; this made it the first multiplex cinema in town. In 1977 it became the first Austrian cinema center . In that year the business was also taken over by Morawetz's son Ferdinand, who managed the cinema until the end. The last structural change came in the 1980s with the installation of a fifth hall.
For economic reasons (competition from other large cinemas, location assessed as unfavorable), operations were discontinued in September 2012 after a fruitless search for alternatives. The premises have been used by a fitness club since July 2016, although reminiscences of the former cinema have been preserved in the room furnishings.
proof
- ↑ a b Salzburg's traditional cinema Elmo locks , in: standard.at , edition of September 24, 2012.
- ↑ Nikolaus Klinger: Lifting dumbbells in the cinema: fitness studio opens in Elmo Kino , in: Salzburger Nachrichten , online edition of July 20, 2016.