page_title: Bantayan, Cebu
section_title: D.C. Abello theater
hierarchical_section_title: Bantayan, Cebu / Heritage / D.C. Abello theater
caption_attribution_description: English: DC Abello movie theater
context_page_description: Bantayan, officially the Municipality of Bantayan, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 79,084 people.
context_section_description: The D.C. Abello Theater was a Love Offering of Diego Abello and Candelaria Abello y Causing, parents of the Mayor Remedios Abello Escario.  Construction of the theater started in 1948 and was completed in 1952.  It took four years before the theater could be fully operation as they had to source out a suitable projector and a quality screen that showed images clearly.  Diego and Candelaria Abello built this theater to provide entertainment to the people of Bantayan.  The building's architectural style harks back to the American period.
  The D.C. Abello Theater used to show double films and was the favorite rendezvous site of many young romantic Bantayanons at the time.  Bantayanons from the neighboring islets and island barangays would flock to this theater especially when a Fernando Poe Jr film was showing.  The theater was closed in the early 1980s with the advent of Betamax and, later the DVD era.
  — Heritage building sign
  As at February 2013 it is some sort of warehouse for glass and windows.
  The building was entirely demolished in early 2015 to make way for the island's first supermarket development.
caption: DC Abello movie theater
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