Watford, The Pond On The High Street c.1955
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This motor historian's delight contains many cars and vans typical of its date. Two Standard Vanguards, a Riley 1½, a Rover 14, a fine Austin Atlantic, an Austin A30 and a Morris J2 van demonstrate the growing traffic problem in Watford town centre. The parade of shops and the Art Deco Odeon cinema (originally the Plaza) on the right were built in 1929. The next showing on the Odeon's new wide screen of 'Suddenly' starring Frank Sinatra is to take place at 1pm. Rivalled and outlived by the Gaumont, which closed in 1983, the Odeon was demolished a few years later, in 1963, to make way for a supermarket.
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