Wondergraph, Wondergraph Theatre and variations were names given first to a technology, and then to picture theatres run first by the Continental Wondergraph Company; and then, in Adelaide, South Aust
Wiliiam Richard Cade's orchestra which used to play at the Wondergraph Theatre, 1912.
Wondergraph Theatre, Semaphore (c.1930)
Civic Theatre, 1956 (formerly the Wondergraph)
Hindley Street is located in the north-west quarter of the centre of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It runs between King William Street and West Terrace. The street was named after Charles
Wondergraph
…established in Adelaide around 1911 by a group of South Australian men led by Mandel Finkelstein, who built the first Wondergraph picture theatre in Hindley Street in 1912–13, and over time built a cinema chain in the city and suburbs. In September 1920 Dan Clifford bought some of Wondergraph's suburban cinemas…
Hindley Street looking west
Conrad's butcher, NE corner of Hindley and Victoria Streets, 1899 (replaced by the Metro Theatre in 1939)
Hindley Street, 1849, from the corner of King William St
Hindley Street circa 1869