TALAR KARTUN
Hi, I am Talar. During the memory walk, we met a woman called Ekim who told us about the story of Yeşilçam street. We started to talk about Emek Movie Theater and she said that we should write a story about it. So, I decided to write this story. My purpose is to find out why this movie theater was built and why a shopping mall was built in its place, though everybody loved the theater so much.
I saw Emek for the first in the movie titled “Mandıra Filozofu”. In the movie, two men go to Taksim sqaure. One of them starts to talk about his memories and says, “We used to go to Emek.”
Emek Movie Theater was built in 1924. Back then, it was called “Melek (angel) Movie Theater”, because of the two angel statues next to the screen. Its name was changed to Emek in 1957, after it was transferred to the Pension Found.
Armenian Araksi Çetinyan won the beauty pageant that was held in Melek Movie Theater in 1926.
It
was demolished on May 20, 2013. I haven't written why it was
demolished, since I cannot find anything about the reasons.
