What should be done with the building of the former Hollywood disco in Hoogeveen? It has been empty since 2018 and the new developments around the De Tamboerpassage shopping center will determine what the next destination of the historic building on the Markt will be. It probably won’t become an annex of theater De Tamboer as a pop stage, but what then?
With the title ‘former Hollywood discotheque’ you actually do not do justice to the history of the building, because although the super dancing probably most reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s, it opened on June 30, 1953 as the Royal Market Cafe. During cattle markets the place where business was done. Around it was a restaurant, theater, wedding banquet hall, café, dance school, discotheque, whatever you could think of. In the last active years, from 2014 to 2018, the building served as a schnitzel restaurant.
Since then it has been waiting for a new destination. Theater director of De Tamboer Pieter-Bas Rebers envisioned it as a pop stage three years ago: “Here’s a stage for the artists”, he pointed to the platform when he walked around the old dance floor for Prohibited Access. “And here the public.” Regional historian Albert Metselaar also thought that was a great idea: “You have to give it a new function. That’s not surprising at all. If that doesn’t work for a while, you can organize other parties or have them held.”