UPP
This is the page for Ultimate Picture Palace cinema, Jeune Street.
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2017
The cinema continues to go strong under the name Ultimate Picture Palace.
It was the 'Penultimate Picture Palace' until 1990, then it closed and was squatted before re-opening as the 'Ultimate Picture Palace' in 1995.
1976
In 1976 Bill Heine owner of the PPP invited his friend sculptor John Buckley to design its fixtures. For the facade he chose a figure reminiscent of Al Jolson with outstretched hands. The door handles were like Mae West's lips, and there was a female and a male figure above the toilet entrances, named Pearl and Dean. In 1986 Buckley made the famous shark at Heine's Headington house
Before then?
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