Salão Lisboa - Lisbon, Portugal - Vintage Movie Theaters on Waymarking.com

The Salão Lisboa vintage movie theater, also known as Cinema Pioljo (Cinema of the Lice) due to its popular character, was built in one of the central squares of downtown Lisbon in 1916.

The address was in the Martim Moniz, in the valley surrounded by hills - where even nowadays the old quarters of Lisbon are located.

It was property of the company "Empresa Salão de Lisboa, Lda." ownned by Henrique O'Donnel, an employee of the Companhia dos Tabacos and his partner Victor Cunha Rosa, a man with connections to the movies business.

Originally there were projections on Thursdays, Saturdays and Mondays. It has 510 seats.

Most of the audience was made of youngsters, therefore action and westerns movies were prefered.

In 1928 there were some renovation works and then again in 1932.

In 1972, still owned by O'Donnels's family, the movie theater ended its activity. It was transformed in a shop, with the same name: Salão Lisboa.


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Year Theater Opened: 1916 Number of Screen(s): 1 Concessions Available: no Web site: [Web Link] Ticket Price (local currency): Not Listed Matinee Price (local currency): Not Listed

Visit Instructions:
Must take a photo of the theater.
Please try to include yourself or gps in the picture.
Tell of your experience at the theater, if it is still a theater. If it is no longer a theater tell of an experience from the past at the theater, if this can be done.

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Date Logged Log   05/17/2008 Kelux visited it