Owned By Mr. Ed Redmond, The Apache Opera House Opened Its Doors On February 26, 1903 With A Play Presentation Of “Davy Crockett”. It Was Last Known As The Opera House Theatre, Before Closing In 1958.
There are no theaters surviving at the talkies era at all in Adair. The Electric which opened on February 4, 1915 closed in 1918, and the Joy which opened on September 21, 1925 with Lionel Barrymore in “Unseeing Eyes” closed in December 1928. Moviegoers were forced to travel all the way to Vinita to see films at the Lyric Theatre right after the 2 Adair theaters closed.
The theater did survive the following: a fire, a flood, and financial famine. It was once raided by the Montgomery Police Department for showing X-films at one point.
Unlike most theaters, When the Clover opened its doors with Jack Benny in “Love Thy Neighbor” as its grand opening attraction, people are not allowed to sit at the balcony, possibly because of repairs or wasn’t even finished yet, I don’t know yet for sure. Its advertisement reads: “THE BALCONY WILL NOT BE OPEN”.
Update: On February 28, 1961, the Pelican Theatre building came down, and was demolished with a major fallout to make way for a US Bank location and (not sure if this occurs but) an extended parking lot.
The actual opening date is November 30, 1940 with Gary Cooper in “The Westerner”, along with a performance by Matty Malneck and his Orchestra, A subject: “Fly Fishing” (not sure if its part of either a sportsreel or a Grantland Rice Sportlight, not sure yet), A cartoon: Max Fletcher’s Gabby in “The Constable”, and a newsreel.
Opened On December 23, 1930 With Charles Ruggles In “Queen High”, Along With A Comedy Titled “A Golf Specialist” And A Fox Movietone Newsreel.
It Was Closed In June 1953 After A Lawsuit Under A Writ Of Attachment In A Suit Filed By Walter Brennan Against Frank And Bernice McCully. Brennan Sued For More Than $10,000 He Said That It Was Due On Notes Given To Him By McCully To Cover Rent. Brennan Remodeled The Theater And Leased It To McCully In 1950, Who IS Associated With A Housing Construction Company In Las Vegas, Nevada.
Opened On January 17, 1929 with the following: Performances by the Mosconi Brothers including 15 assisting artists including Dorothy Van Alst and Berna Doyle, Elsie & Paulsen in “Flashes Of The North”, Roscoe Ates and Dorothy Darling in “Who? Me!”, Lester Crawford in “A Smile Or Two”, Helen Broderick in “The Trial Of Mary Dugan” (part of the “The Sad Case Of Mary Dugan” series, and the first attraction: Colleen Moore in “Synthetic Sin”.
The Pelican Was Also Equipped With An Orchestra And A Warlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Played By Rex Stratton Who Attended The University Of Oregon At Eugene Earlier Before His Carrier.
The Pelican is equipped with an 11 Sturtevant air conditioner with a capacity of 46,000 cubic feet of air, 8ft4in high, 7ft8in long, and 6ft3in wide. It casts from a 72in American Radiator company ventor which is a bank of pipes filled with steam. After heating, it passes through a Sturtevant Type H Air Washer. The main theatre building’s basement where the heating and washing coils are located through a concrete plentum, which is a passage chamber. The theater’s metal ducts carry the air to grill from the main floor and to a semi-mushroom system of 165 air inlets inside. All fans were driven by Fairbanks Morse ball-bearing motors, and individual steal radiators, a Number 2 durectly connected Sturlevant fan keeps the air fresh in restrooms and smoking rooms. There is a lot of other information about the air conditioners in this theater but I decided to cut it short a little.
The electric sign (done by the Electrical Products Corporation, owners of the original presents of Calude Neon)’s measurements were 15x46ft and was an estimate cost towards $6,000. In technicolor, it is neon gas, elusive and a misunderstood product of natures own atmosphere were used in three different colors: red, orange, and blue. The “Pelican” letters were 24in in height, done in red, and the “Poole’s” and “Theatre” were also worked out in red flexiume characters half-a-yard tall. The Pelican himself under whose broad wings the theatre sails is enhanced by orange neon, with the borders attractively complete the color scheme in blue neon.
Inside, there are 11,540ft of cable and rope used backstage which covers over 2 miles), and the stage floor is sanded and as highly finished of top grade maple wood and fir, built on concrete base. 1400yds of draperies were used throughout the house, and the motif is red in the auditorium. The balcony is 82ft across the facade and 54ft in depth. 13 rows of chairs and 4 rows of loges with a capacity of 626 in total as of its opening. Each row is separated platform long enough for complete comfort even though the theatre patron is a member of a “Long Fellow’s Club”. The asbestos curtains were weigh 1,200 pounds.
San Francisco native M. J. Reid, part of the architectural form of the Reid Brothers there, designed the Pelican, and is listed as one of the greatest architects in the USA, who started his Klamath Falls services for the building of the “New” Klamath Theatre in 1894.
A guy simply named as H. W. Poole, is the president and controlling stockholder of the Pelican. He has been in the theater business since 1919. He made it into Klamath Falls on December 23, 1910 while seeking a place to make his house. After getting into the business in 1919, he built and opened the Liberty Theatre. Later on October 1, 1920, he opened up the Chiloquin Theatre, and would later complete the Pine Tree Theatre on April 8, 1925. He struck his next project, and the answer is the Pelican.
Opened In January 1952, Once Closed In 1972, Reopened In 1977, Closed For The Final Time On March 4, 1986 With “Basic Training” And “Weekend Pass” As Its Last Films.
There Is Also A Shotgun Incident That Took Place In September 1974.
The 400-Capacity (200 Seats For Each Screen) Brooksville Twin Began Construction On August 1, 1976. After Being Constructed, Floyd Theatres First Operated The Theater And Opened The Twin To The Public On May 19, 1977.
Throughout Its History, The Brooksville Twin Was Operated By Floyd Theatres, Cobb Theatres, And Carmike Cinemas.
The Twin Closed Its Doors For The Final Time In September 2000, Which Occurred During The First Week Of The Month.
Opened On June 26, 1964 With “From Russia With Love” At Screen 1 And “Wild And Wonderful” At Screen 2.
Opened On March 31, 1942 With “Badlands Of Dakota”.
Owned By Mr. Ed Redmond, The Apache Opera House Opened Its Doors On February 26, 1903 With A Play Presentation Of “Davy Crockett”. It Was Last Known As The Opera House Theatre, Before Closing In 1958.
Opened On June 2, 1949 With “Ali Baba And The 40 Thieves”.
Opened With Abbott And Costello In “Jack And The Beanstalk” And Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In “Mr. Drakes Duck”.
Opened by Cobb in the Summer of 1988.
There are no theaters surviving at the talkies era at all in Adair. The Electric which opened on February 4, 1915 closed in 1918, and the Joy which opened on September 21, 1925 with Lionel Barrymore in “Unseeing Eyes” closed in December 1928. Moviegoers were forced to travel all the way to Vinita to see films at the Lyric Theatre right after the 2 Adair theaters closed.
Opened With “Red Stallion”.
The actual building itself was first built in the 1880s according to an article all about the June 8, 1972 Wilby Theatre fire.
The theater did survive the following: a fire, a flood, and financial famine. It was once raided by the Montgomery Police Department for showing X-films at one point.
Unlike most theaters, When the Clover opened its doors with Jack Benny in “Love Thy Neighbor” as its grand opening attraction, people are not allowed to sit at the balcony, possibly because of repairs or wasn’t even finished yet, I don’t know yet for sure. Its advertisement reads: “THE BALCONY WILL NOT BE OPEN”.
The original owner of the Hugoton Drive-In passed away at the age of 68 in September 1959.
Right after the theater closed in 1987, it was demolished right afterwards to make way for a pile of houses.
Update: On February 28, 1961, the Pelican Theatre building came down, and was demolished with a major fallout to make way for a US Bank location and (not sure if this occurs but) an extended parking lot.
Closed In 1960, And Demolished In December 1960/January 1961.
The actual opening date is November 30, 1940 with Gary Cooper in “The Westerner”, along with a performance by Matty Malneck and his Orchestra, A subject: “Fly Fishing” (not sure if its part of either a sportsreel or a Grantland Rice Sportlight, not sure yet), A cartoon: Max Fletcher’s Gabby in “The Constable”, and a newsreel.
Opened On June 22, 1950 With “The Kid From Texas”.
Opened On December 23, 1930 With Charles Ruggles In “Queen High”, Along With A Comedy Titled “A Golf Specialist” And A Fox Movietone Newsreel.
It Was Closed In June 1953 After A Lawsuit Under A Writ Of Attachment In A Suit Filed By Walter Brennan Against Frank And Bernice McCully. Brennan Sued For More Than $10,000 He Said That It Was Due On Notes Given To Him By McCully To Cover Rent. Brennan Remodeled The Theater And Leased It To McCully In 1950, Who IS Associated With A Housing Construction Company In Las Vegas, Nevada.
Opened On January 17, 1929 with the following: Performances by the Mosconi Brothers including 15 assisting artists including Dorothy Van Alst and Berna Doyle, Elsie & Paulsen in “Flashes Of The North”, Roscoe Ates and Dorothy Darling in “Who? Me!”, Lester Crawford in “A Smile Or Two”, Helen Broderick in “The Trial Of Mary Dugan” (part of the “The Sad Case Of Mary Dugan” series, and the first attraction: Colleen Moore in “Synthetic Sin”.
The Pelican Was Also Equipped With An Orchestra And A Warlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Played By Rex Stratton Who Attended The University Of Oregon At Eugene Earlier Before His Carrier.
The Pelican is equipped with an 11 Sturtevant air conditioner with a capacity of 46,000 cubic feet of air, 8ft4in high, 7ft8in long, and 6ft3in wide. It casts from a 72in American Radiator company ventor which is a bank of pipes filled with steam. After heating, it passes through a Sturtevant Type H Air Washer. The main theatre building’s basement where the heating and washing coils are located through a concrete plentum, which is a passage chamber. The theater’s metal ducts carry the air to grill from the main floor and to a semi-mushroom system of 165 air inlets inside. All fans were driven by Fairbanks Morse ball-bearing motors, and individual steal radiators, a Number 2 durectly connected Sturlevant fan keeps the air fresh in restrooms and smoking rooms. There is a lot of other information about the air conditioners in this theater but I decided to cut it short a little.
The electric sign (done by the Electrical Products Corporation, owners of the original presents of Calude Neon)’s measurements were 15x46ft and was an estimate cost towards $6,000. In technicolor, it is neon gas, elusive and a misunderstood product of natures own atmosphere were used in three different colors: red, orange, and blue. The “Pelican” letters were 24in in height, done in red, and the “Poole’s” and “Theatre” were also worked out in red flexiume characters half-a-yard tall. The Pelican himself under whose broad wings the theatre sails is enhanced by orange neon, with the borders attractively complete the color scheme in blue neon.
Inside, there are 11,540ft of cable and rope used backstage which covers over 2 miles), and the stage floor is sanded and as highly finished of top grade maple wood and fir, built on concrete base. 1400yds of draperies were used throughout the house, and the motif is red in the auditorium. The balcony is 82ft across the facade and 54ft in depth. 13 rows of chairs and 4 rows of loges with a capacity of 626 in total as of its opening. Each row is separated platform long enough for complete comfort even though the theatre patron is a member of a “Long Fellow’s Club”. The asbestos curtains were weigh 1,200 pounds.
San Francisco native M. J. Reid, part of the architectural form of the Reid Brothers there, designed the Pelican, and is listed as one of the greatest architects in the USA, who started his Klamath Falls services for the building of the “New” Klamath Theatre in 1894.
A guy simply named as H. W. Poole, is the president and controlling stockholder of the Pelican. He has been in the theater business since 1919. He made it into Klamath Falls on December 23, 1910 while seeking a place to make his house. After getting into the business in 1919, he built and opened the Liberty Theatre. Later on October 1, 1920, he opened up the Chiloquin Theatre, and would later complete the Pine Tree Theatre on April 8, 1925. He struck his next project, and the answer is the Pelican.
Opened On April 25, 1941 With Chester Morris In “Thunder Afloat” And William Boyd In “Border Vigilantes”.
Closed In 1964.
Closed In 1962.
Opened In January 1952, Once Closed In 1972, Reopened In 1977, Closed For The Final Time On March 4, 1986 With “Basic Training” And “Weekend Pass” As Its Last Films.
There Is Also A Shotgun Incident That Took Place In September 1974.
Closed In September 1962.
The 400-Capacity (200 Seats For Each Screen) Brooksville Twin Began Construction On August 1, 1976. After Being Constructed, Floyd Theatres First Operated The Theater And Opened The Twin To The Public On May 19, 1977.
Throughout Its History, The Brooksville Twin Was Operated By Floyd Theatres, Cobb Theatres, And Carmike Cinemas.
The Twin Closed Its Doors For The Final Time In September 2000, Which Occurred During The First Week Of The Month.