Heather reporting from Capetown part 2

...and here is another great must-see-place when visiting Capetown according to Heather from SkinnyLaminx...
"Just down the road, in the opposite direction from Heartworks, is another very special place. It’s a small independent cinema called the Labia Cinema.

First built as a ballroom for the Italian embassy, the building was converted into a venue for live performances by the Princess Labia.

Now the Labia operates as a four screen cinema from its charmingly old-world premises in Orange Street, Gardens, and has recently built a new extension up the road on Kloof Street.

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I don’t remember when last I went to see a movie at one of the shopping mall cinemas. Those super-sized theaters simply can’t compete with a nighttime stroll down Kloof Street to the warmly-lit Labia lobby…

…buying a cardboard ticket from a roll from the lady in the booth…

…then getting a beer or a coffee from Harold at the bar…


… and grabbing a paper bag of popcorn from the Choc Bar…

…and letting long-time usher Christine tear your ticket before you take the lot inside the theater (and the beer too!).

The seats aren’t super-comfortable and the sound isn’t surround, but the atmosphere is impossible to synthesise. It’s the real thing, and it can’t be beat."...for more information please send Heather an email...

{Thank you so much Heather contributing these 2 posts today on Bloesem's World Tour}

Comments

[zee]

It looks very cute. But seriously, it's called Labia?!! If I lived in that neighbourhood I would be cracking Labia jokes from morning until noon and it would never get old. But that's me, I suppose...

[R. Robyn]

I can't help but be a bit immature, but it was the name of the cinema that caught my eye! I'm sure there are many more "Labia" comments to come.

[R. Robyn]

I can't help but be a bit immature, but it was the name of the cinema that caught my eye! I'm sure there are many more "Labia" comments to come.

[joanna goddard]

oh what a lovely photo of harold at the bar!!

[Heather Moore]

Heh heh. Well, we do like to call it "The Lips"!

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share bits of my lovely city with your readers, Irene! Have a great weekend.

[heidi]

that gave me a great big belly laugh on this dreary day! THANKS!

[m. heart]

labia lobby! i love it! they need to sell tee-shirts or something with a name like that.
thanks so much for sharing, i'll be smiling about this to myself for the rest of the day at least.

[Jessie Cacciola]

I'm loving this tour!
- Jessie -

[Liberty Post Editor]

I could just hug these people! They look so real and genuine! Thank you for the visit!

[imedagoze]

ah I've been missing so much. This is sure so much fun, Irene. You make it easier to see the world. Thank you for having this. :)

[Anairam]

Oh, this reminds me of a student of mine who believed that The Labia was so called because it used 'show pornographic movies in the 70's ....' (His mom told him). No amount of information about the Labia family (not to mention censorship laws in the RSA in the 70's) could dissuade him from this belief!
BTW, what has happened about the lovely old pink Labia house/museum in Muizenberg? It sadly has not been open to the public for a few years now ...

[francesca]

lovely post heather, beautiful cinema.