Bangalore/ Bengaluru

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Bangalore

Trivia

Adapted from IndiaToday

1. Attara Kacheri, a landmark, was saved from demolition by the first PIL filed before the Karnataka High Court in 1985

2. Springfest, an annual festival of Christ College, began in the 1970s and was later replaced by a festival named after a Nirvana song

3. Lido, a Bangalore theatre inaugurated around the year 1965, tarted the 70 mm vogue in Karnataka with a screening of Cleopatra

4. Chitchat, a 1980s hangout, in the former EGK building, is likely to be spotted in movies of the period such as Mani Ratnam’s Pallavi Anupallavi

5. The Elgin Flour Mills, a 1932 red-brick structure on Hosur Road, made way for an apartment complex in the ’90s

6. Galaxy Theatre, a now-defunct Residency Road establishment, set up in 1971, offered patrons the view of an artificial brook flowing over a bed of pebbles as they ascended a walkway carpeted in red

7. Plaza Theatre was established by two brothers in 1936 after they visited Britain to see how such buildings were designed

8. Thom’s Café was the restaurant off Promenade Road that served as a hangout for students of the ’70s and now survives as the name of a BMTC bus-stop

9. Olivia Newton-John and Elton John were the names of the toilets at Black Cadillac. Thus did the female lead of Grease and a musician, whose real name was Reginald Dwight, find immortality of a dubious sort in Bangalorean memory

10. The Public Utility Building, a Bangalore landmark, was built on the site where the Bangalore Library had stood since 1813