Lido de Paris

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The Lido de Paris is one of the best known pillars of Paris entertainment, and has been dazzling visitors with elaborate dinner shows for more than half a century. This is the entrance to the Lido on the Champs-Élysées.

This club was founded in 1946 by the Clerico brothers, in the former location of a music hall that had been popular at the turn of the century. In 1977, it moved to its current location on one of the world’s best known avenues, which allowed it to expand to seat around 1100 persons. The theater is inside the building; like many structures of this kind in Paris, it looks much smaller on the outside than it is on the inside.

There is a cinema called the UGC Normandie (UGC is a chain of French cinemas) next to the Lido, which is why you see the word NORMANDIE above the Lido marquee (Normandie is also the name of the building itself).

The Lido gets its name from the famous island of Lido in Venice, which inspired the original Belle Époque music hall that formerly occupied the original location of the current club.

Photographed on June 3, 2001.