#THE TOWER THEATRE MOVIE#

A brief October 25, 1936, Oklahoman article reported, This article tells the story of the old Tower Theatre and discusses what it may yet become.Ĭlick a link below to skip the 1st Golden Era The Tower, despite its tough times beginning in the early 1970s and continuing through the present day, has somehow kept on hanging on, and, indeed, the Tower shows real signs that it may come to breathe new life again. The renovated Plaza has lately fared better becoming the home of Lyric Theater today.

The Ritz, the Circle, and the Aldridge are gone only a vestige of the Victoria remains but in a fairly non-recognizable form.

#THE TOWER THEATRE MOVIE#

While not at all close to being the earliest Oklahoma City suburban movie theater, it was arguably the finest of those built before the closing of downtown’s many fine movie houses in the 1970s. 2nd all predated the 1937 Tower Theatre at 425 N.W. Robinson), and the 1919 Aldridge in Deep Deuce at 303-305 N.E. 13th – NE 13th & Stonewall), the 1928 Victoria (northwest corner of Classen & NW 18th), the 1928 Circle (2510 S. Of Oklahoma City’s early suburban movie houses, the Tower wasn’t among the first. Why many vintage movie houses called themselves, “theatRES,” instead of ordinary American English, “theatERS,” I don’t know, but the reason must have had something to do with them saying, “We are SPECIAL,” and, for many of those theaters, including this one, that’s exactly what they were. Started on Septemcompleted September 14, 2009.

The tower theatre