One year between shop and squat

On 30 October 1987 Firma J. A. van Duyn, the last furniture shop, advertised its closing-down sale¹. In February 1989 a newspaper agenda placed the Paleis Toneel Theater at the same address, under the venue name Duinpaleis².

After the furniture shop

The sale advertisement does not say when the firm left the building³, and no source we hold names the owner in the months between. The February agenda then shows the Paleis Toneel Theater advertising Puinpaleis at Duinpaleis, Rochussenstraat 169⁴.

Puinpaleis, February

A Rotterdam newspaper's Saturday listings advertised Puinpaleis by the Paleis Toneel Theater for 2:30 pm on Sunday 5 February 1989, at Duinpaleis, Rochussenstraat 169⁵.

The listing for the Library Theatre on the Hoogstraat appears immediately above it. The second entry names the show and company and gives its time and address. The UvA theatre catalogue probably identifies the show as Puinpaleis: deel 1: In de eetkamer, a youth-theatre production with a premiere date of 5 February; it lists Erik-Ward Geerlings among the performers⁶.

A December cabaret

In December 1989 a newspaper agenda advertised two shows billed to De Pragmatici⁷. One was the late-night cabaret Het obscene eekhoorntje (the obscene little squirrel), the other the afternoon family production De dame en de neushoorn (the lady and the rhinoceros)⁸.

The agenda shows only what was advertised, not whether either performance went ahead.

The same building in 1994

Nothing in the sources shows theatre use running through 1989, or between 1989 and the building's next recorded use as a venue. By 12 January 1994 the music venue Dodorama was already using the same building⁹. The exact date when one use ended and the other began is still unknown.