Chicago Rock Café

Continuing my #onestreet series on Greenhill Street this is number 8, the Chicago Rock Café.  I never visited the place, it being a young persons’ hang out and now it is closed.
 
This building is a fairly new part of Greenhill Street which has quite a variety of architecture.  Originally there was a cinema on this site, opened in 1912 as the Electric Picture House.  The cinema went through a few changes its last incarnation being the Picture House built in 1934 in the Art Deco style. I’m not sure when this photo of the place I found on the internet was taken, but it finally had its demise, after internal changes and improvements, in 1983 when it was closed and demolished to be replaced by a Safeway Supermarket.  In 1999 the Chicago Rock Café took over the site.  This closed in 2013 and the building now awaits a new tenant. 
 
More information is available at The Picture House if you’re interested, and is where I obtained the photo and facts.
 
Stratford was without a cinema until 1997 when a petition signed by 2000 people resulted in the building and opening of The Picture House around the corner in Windsor Street.