Tuesday, September 17, 2024

38 years ago, in 1985 the Regal Theatre, Mombasa perished in a fire!!

 The photo and write up below appeared in Taifa Leo the day following the fire, sometime in September 1985!!

(English translation)
This photo shows the Regal Cinema, Mombasa, after a fire completely destroyed it on Wednesday night. Assets worth millions of shillings were burned when the building that could seat 800 people burned at seven o'clock at night. (actually at 1 am!)

No one was injured in the blackout that happened after the last movie ended at midnight.

Firefighters arrived at the place and found the roof of the building collapsed

Cinema listings Jan 12th 1968 East African Standard

Kenya and 20th Century Cinemas are not listed...probably this was during the 3 months period or so when 20th Century Fox (EA) Ltd closed dow...