
Clydebank's La Scala cinema opened in 1938 - seating 2,648, it was described as the pride of Clydebank, and survived the Clydebank Blitz unscathed - here it is in the 1950s:

(Scottish Cinemas website)
It became an ABC cinema, then closed as a cinema in 1984. Subdivided, the top half became a snooker club, the bottom half a bingo hall. I only explored the top half:

The pride of Clydebank is now in a sorry state.

Up higher, to the battery room:

Cabinets for two mercury vapour rectifiers:



The projection room:





Because of the odd way it was subdivided, the snooker club used one of the original entrances as a beer cellar:





And that's it, really - thanks very much to Pantomime Horse for the lead

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