The doors closed for the last time in late 1998
Now it's about to be razed for an extended car park for Spencer Street.
Following a request from a correspondent on the bulletin board
we took our camera out to record the last days of the County Cinema
before they literally 'put up a parking lot' as Joni Mitchell put it.
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The doors closed for the last time in late 1998 |
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Now it's about to be razed for an extended car park for Spencer Street. |
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These photographs may be the last you'll see |
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The queues for great films like ET used to line up along the footpath. The side lane leads to the existing car park beneath the telecom tower. |
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The back of the cinema doesn't quite match the architectural front |
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Read some great movie memories from the County Cinema on the Nostalgia BBMore photos of Castlebar and County Mayo in the West of IrelandGo to Castlebar