A MÉTRO STATION AND A MOVIE THEATER

THE DISREGARDED AREA THAT LIES ALONG THE TRACKS HARBORS MONUMENTS THAT ARE ENTIRELY OUTSIDE TOURISTIC CIRCUITS

The aerial métro...

A bank highlights its ATM machine with a photo.

And a 1920's cinema, the Louxor: the main gay discothèque of the 1980's, abandoned in 1988, almost sold to the Tati department store, restored by the City in 2013 and now as "Le Grand Rex," a movie theater again. 

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See it as you leave the station: 

 

                            Gone from the web

For an account (in French)

 and photos from the past, please click.

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