This wasn't built as a cinema.It was built as the Palace of Light for the showman C. B. Cochran, and opened 4 July 1908.It originally had 1,000 light bulbs on the exterior.Cochran was well-known at the time, and presented all kinds of live performances, usually called Cochran Revues".However, he didn't present films.It was renamed the Gem in 1910, which is when it probably became a cinema.Incid