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Movie palace that was fit for an emperor

TODAY’S old picture features the Shah Jehan cinema on the corner of Grey and Lorne streets, (today Dr Yusuf Dadoo and Ismail C Meer) which was once the city’s largest.

The picture was taken in the 2400-seater cinema’s heyday, probably in the late 1960s or early

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