The cinema has been closed for a number of years
It's now been 60 years since a "one-off wonder" came to one of Liverpool's much-loved and now lost cinemas.
As part of the Liverpool ECHO's How It Used To Be series, we spoke to Mike, 80, about his memories of the Abbey Cinema and when Cinerama came to Liverpool 60 years ago. He told the ECHO: "I started at the Plaza in Allerton, which used to be a Gaumont. I started there as an apprentice in 1959. "My friend gave me a tour of the Abbey and showed me the projection room. They used three projections to show the picture, it was split into three pieces. That alone was a novelty to see it because it had never been heard of before. It was a one-off wonder."
Mike said Cinerama had initially wanted to come to the Liverpool Empire, but that the owners of the Abbey Cinema went on the seize the opportunity. Many cinema-goers and civic dignitaries crammed into the art deco cinema to see it for the first time six decades ago. "Those who saw it will remember it opened with the roller-coaster - the largest rollercoaster in the world was featured in the film. It blew everybody's mind away. The whole thing ran for about two hours with an intermission in the middle. We'd never done anything like that, but it was really fantastic.
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