Capital Cinema (โรงภาพยนตร์แคปปิตอล) - Spectral Codex
โรงภาพยนตร์แคปปิตอล

Capital Cinema was likely built sometime in the late 1930s or 1940s in the old downtown area of Bangkok. Over the years it was renamed several times and may have also been known as New Capital (นิวแคปปิตอล) and later Charoenkrung Theatre (เจริญกรุงเธียเตอร์). It finally closed down in 2006 after spending several years screening mainly adult films. Not long thereafter it was renovated into an electronics shopping center, leaving almost no trace of its original function.

Capital Cinema from the street.
Capital Cinema from the street.
The old façade of Capital Cinema.
The old façade of Capital Cinema.

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