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bought out the Ozone company, and in 1952 undertook a complete refurbishment of the
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The building remains substantially intact from its previous uses, and its state heritage listing notes that "enough interior elements of both periods remain for it to be quite a significant representative of suburban cinemas in their heyday".
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