Built by Zhou Chen Yushu (周陳玉樹), the same entrepreneur behind Lesheng Theater and Cinema Street, this multi-use entertainment complex opened on December 31, 1956 with over 1,300 seats. It showed first-run Western films and later Hong Kong films. On January 19, 1966 a massive fire killed 31 people including firefighters. Zhou rebuilt it as Xinsheng Theater (新聲戲院), changing the second character for good luck. It opened in 1968 but was struck by fires again in 1988 and 1993, forcing demolition. The site sat empty until the late 1990s. The replacement tower Xingmoshi (星摩市) was completed in 2000 and is now occupied by Cash Box KTV (錢櫃中華新館).
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- Status:Vanished (已消失)
- Address:台北市中華路1段55號
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- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Drama Location (臺灣戲劇取景地點)
Themes
- Theaters in Taiwan (台灣老戲院)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.