The Bridgeway (122 Queen Street)

The Onewa Picture Drome (now Bridgeway Boutique Cinemas) and the Waitemata Bus & Transport Company Ltd bus barn, as well as several nearby offices and shops were built in 1927 by E. and J. Fraser, engineers. By 1929, the theatre’s name had changed to the Palais because of the free dances, parties, and fancy-dress occasions that were held after the pictures, with the theatre seats pushed back to the walls. It was renamed King's Theatre during the 1930s and The Bridgeway after the Harbour Bridge was built. The cinema underwent major refurbishment in 2000 and the old bus barn became a second cinema. When the Waitemata Bus Co. was first established after the World War I, the distinctive red buses were housed in the old wooden barn behind the cinema on Clarence Road.

Turn to look across the road to the corner of Bartley Street.