Pongrácz Erzsébet: The Cinemas of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

possible became possible - Galambos had the supporting pillars of a four-storey building removed to make room for the auditorium of a picture house seating six hundred people. This architectural tour de force was then decorated by sculptor Hugó Pál with such a bold, expressionist design that the local public had only seen in foreign picture magazines. .. The Palace is one of our best loved premiere cinemas,” the writer concluded.

This was the first cinema in Budapest to introduce morning shows, and if its programming policies did not cater for the most refined tastes (for a long time it featured mainly thrillers), its loyal audience kept returning to the red velvet seats of the magnificent film palace until 1939. With the new management that was installed before the outbreak of the world war the cinema was given the new, Hungarian name of Pest, though it was once again re-baptised in 1952, when it became the Bástya.

PUSKIN (1926)

18 Kossuth Lajos utca, district V

In the decades of the turn of the century and the early twentieth century Kossuth Lajos utca and its environs were the centre of the social and political life of Budapest. Here could be found the Országos Kaszinó (National Casino) and, almost right across the street, the café Magyar Világ

The Puskin in 1958

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