Pathé-Vaise, Historical movie theater in Vaise, Lyon, France
Pathé-Vaise is a cinema at 43 rue des Docks in Lyon's 9th arrondissement, housed in a former industrial building renovated in 2007. It has 14 screening rooms with 2,600 seats, including a Dolby Cinema auditorium since 13 December 2017. The yellow-block facade on rue des Docks carries a large arched window above the entrance and yellow "PATHÉ" lettering over six film posters and closed grey roller shutters.
The cinema occupies the Chais Beaucairois, a former bottling plant of the Guichard-Perrachon-Casino company, one of the last remnants of Vaise's industrial past. The building was listed on the French historic monuments inventory on 3 July 2003, and the conversion into a cinema was completed in 2007.
The building began as a bottling plant for the Guichard-Perrachon-Casino company, known as the Chais Beaucairois, and the cinema keeps the name of the Vaise district it serves. Its fourteen screens, including a Dolby Cinema auditorium since 13 December 2017, show films in a converted industrial hall on Rue des Docks.
The cinema stands at 43 rue des Docks, between the Saône and the tracks of Lyon-Vaise station, in the Vaise district of Lyon's 9th arrondissement. The building is listed as a monument historique, so visitors should look for the industrial dock structure rather than a purpose-built cinema facade.
The building housed a bottling plant for the Guichard-Perrachon-Casino company, known as the Chais Beaucairois, before its 2007 conversion into a cinema. It was listed on the inventory of monuments historiques on 3 July 2003, while still an industrial vestige of Vaise.
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