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Fire, flood or disaster · 02.1933

Kino Endla burns down by the Baltic Station

Balti jaama juures põleb maha kino Endla

One February morning in 1933 the Endla cinema near Tallinn's Baltic Station, by the old exhibition grounds, caught fire inside while its doors were still locked. A railway police constable from Tapa, in town for a court case, spotted smoke seeping from the street wall on his way to the courthouse and raised the alarm. The dry wooden building burned so fast in the wind that within half an hour it was razed to the ground. Only the concrete projection room survived, with the new sound-film equipment and several films still inside.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

Ühel 1933. aasta veebruarihommikul süttis Tallinnas Balti jaama lähedal vana näituseplatsi juures asunud kino Endla seestpoolt põlema, kui uksed olid veel lukus. Tapa raudteepolitsei konstaabel, kes oli linnas kohtuasja pärast, märkas teel kohtumajja tänavapoolsest seinast imbuvat suitsu ja andis häire. Kuiv laudehitis põles tuule käes nii kiiresti, et poole tunniga oli kino maani maha põlenud. Alles jäi vaid tsemendist ehitatud aparaadiruum, kus olid helifilmi sisseseade ja mitu filmi.

Map of the area around Kino Endla burns down by the Baltic Station
59.43950° N, 24.73500° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Postimees, 14 February 1933, p. 1 (DIGAR) ↗

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