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    Movie palace that was fit for an emperor

    Apr 10, 2021 2 minutes
    FRANK CHEMALY frank.chemaly@inl.co.za
    SHELLEY KJONSTAD
     African News Agency (ANA)

    TODAY’S old picture features the Shah Jehan cinema on the corner of Grey and Lorne streets, (today Dr Yusuf Dadoo and Ismail C Meer) which was once the city’s largest.

    The picture was taken in the 2400-seater cinema’s heyday, probably in the late 1960s or early

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