Viva Brighton Issue #69 November 2018

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INSIDE LEFT: VOGUE CINEMA, 1979 ..................................................................................... There was quite a reaction when I put up a picture of the interior of this building on the Brighton Past site on Facebook, with the comment ‘the Vogue Gyratory is thought to be the only one-way system in the country named after a porn movie cinema’. The picture, from the James Gray collection, was taken in October 1979, when the cinema - by then called The Classic - was in its death throes, having been earmarked for demolition. ‘The Classic’ was the fourth and shortest-lived incarnation of the cinema, which was purpose-built as ‘The Gaiety’ in 1937 and opened with a screening of Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In those days the six pilasters on the façade reached fifty feet into the sky, and were highlighted at night by neon strips. It seated no fewer than 1,400 people, and was considered one of the jewels in the crown of Brighton’s thriving cinema scene. In 1965, during a far bleaker period for the industry, it was renamed The Ace, in a vain attempt to pull in a younger, trendier clientele. And it was rebranded again in 1971, becoming The Vogue, with a screen upstairs showing soft porn movies (and monthly strip shows) to club members, and a bingo hall downstairs. ‘The films were very tame by today’s standards’, we’re told by then-manager John Langsbridge, via Facebook. Another FB poster remembers them as ‘tits and bums films, nothing stronger’. The Alternative Brighton 1973 Guide remembers it for ‘dirty pics and occasional strip clubs, both for members only’. It wasn’t unknown for husband and wife to go to the venue together, we hear, each to their own event. It ran as The Vogue until 1979. Many Brighton Past Facebook posters remembered the cinema in its pre-sixties pomp, as The Gaiety, and bridled at the notion that the building should be remembered as a porno cinema, and it is a pity that the one-way system should recall the least salubrious incarnation of the building. It was even suggested on Facebook that the unloved multi-road-junction should be renamed to reflect the cinema’s golden era, rather than its tacky last chapter. But would a campaign to call it the ‘Gaiety Gyratory’ persuade the Council to act? It does have a pleasing ring to it, doesn’t it? Alex Leith Thanks, as ever, to the Regency Society for permission to use this picture, from the James Gray archive. regencysociety-jamesgray.com ....98....
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