Official visitors guide
Jönköping | Huskvarna
Gränna | Visingsö
Official visitors guide
Jönköping | Huskvarna
Gränna | Visingsö
Many people probably know that Jönköpings Teater was also a cinema. But did you know that people started showing films in the theater as early as the 1910s?
At the end of the 1920s, the beginning of the 1930s, the cinema took up more and more space and the building was rented out to Skandinaviska Biograf AB. In 1932, the theater was rebuilt to also be a permanent cinema. In connection with the theater also becoming a cinema, the entrance was changed. Over the entrance hung a large canopy and a neon sign with the text "theater cinema". The theater cinema sign is today at Kulturhuset in the Match area.
During the 1950s, the cinema business competed with the theater business at Jönköpings Teater, which meant that other theater premises sprang up in Jönköping. Films were shown at Jönköpings Teater until 1971, more precisely on 30 June. The last film shown was a 1965 Spanish-Italian spaghetti western - "$ 100,000 for Ringo" ("Centomila dollars per Ringo").