Tag: Cloudland
Originally called “Luna Park”, Cloudland Dance Hall was a famous Brisbane entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills. It was demolished in 1982 and the site was subsequently developed into an apartment complex.
On its hilltop site above Brisbane, Cloudland’s distinctive parabolic laminated roof arch, nearly 18 metres high, was highly visible.
It was constructed in 1939-40, by T.H.Eslick and opened on 2 August 1940. Eslick paid particular attention to the dance floor. He wanted to create the “best ballroom in the Southern Hemisphere”. A funicular railway ran up the side of the hill from the tram stop on Breakfast Creek Road carrying passengers to the rear of the Ballroom. The site was originally intended to have a fun park like Luna Park in Melbourne, which Eslick had built in 1912. It was the largest building of its type in Brisbane.
Eslick disappeared soon after Cloudland was opened so the building was left abandoned until 1942 when it was used by the American military. When…
