According to the Multiple Listing Service the building dates to 1945.
However, I did find a large ad in the Saturday Evening Post in 1925 for the movie Drusilla with a Million in which the Strand was listed as one of the theatres due to show it commencing August 16th of that year.
Building dates from 1924. Operated as the Colonial from 1930-1966. Change in ownership in 1966 and again in the 1970’s. Known as The Cinema V for a time.
Then renovated into a bar.
Purchased by the city in 2017 for $60,000; considerably less than the $148,000 appraisal. Many grants received and repairs and improvement made.
Performances and events subsequently held and an art gallery opened. There are plans for future renovations and upgrades into a full fledged performing arts center.
I’ve uploaded two street photos as a movie theatre.
This 43 x 140 foot building on the South Side of Main Street was constructed in 1925 by Ferris and Glen Thompson. Over time the Thompson name was associated with theatres throughout Oklahoma.
The theatre closed in 1982.
One source indicates that Wilson, at one time, had also been home to the Dreamland, Empress, Ezy, Hippodrome, Rialto and Yale Theatres.
It was touted as the finest in the area when it opened in 1936.
Dallas -At the time Robert Sr, died in 1946 the obituary indicated he had been the owner of the Star and Guy’s Theatres. At the time the drive in opened in 1950 you indicated there were now three theatres run by the family. The question would be whether the second hardtop would be the Guy’s or the Flanary.
I came upon a joint ad for the Star and the Flanary in January 1953 and an ad solely for the Flanary in 1975.
I know it’s customary to save taxes to only have a portion of a theatre on the main street with the auditorium behind, but this has got to be the smallest presence ever.
I have uploaded photos of the marquee, the current street view, the current interior and an exterior photo from 1950 which appeared in the Chronicle Herald.
See the photo section announcing that the theatre was going to be twinned for a February 1981 opening. Never happened. I presumed 1981 because the film being shown was Private Benjamin which was a 1980 film.
Joe there is some confusion here. The picture of the supposed Blanchard’s Theatre after it was destroyed by a fire in 1927 has a vertical that reads Strand. Yet the description of the Strand which you’ve linked indicated that the former Hippodrome became the Strand in January 1926. So either the picture of the charred Strand is not Blanchard’s or the article has the wrong date. I suspect the former.
Bloop. The two theatres in Ronkonkoma did show porn at some time but I don’t think simultaneously. The other one was operated by the same owner as the Coram when it was porn oriented.
They finally boarded up the broken windows! But they also boarded up the entrance lobby?????? In addition to the machine and the porta potty I mentioned previously there is also a back hoe within the fenced area.
The Rig was the childhood cinema of singer/songwriter Roy Orbison. He also played there with his bands the Teen Kings and the Wink Westerners. Graffiti from 1951 by Roy and his friends was found in the stairway to the balcony in 1999 and was placed in the Roy Orbison Museum. It was hoped that the theatre would reopen and the museum relocated to the lobby. Sadly it did not.
According to the Multiple Listing Service the building dates to 1945.
However, I did find a large ad in the Saturday Evening Post in 1925 for the movie Drusilla with a Million in which the Strand was listed as one of the theatres due to show it commencing August 16th of that year.
According to the Multiple Listing Service the building dates to 1945.
Building dates from 1924. Operated as the Colonial from 1930-1966. Change in ownership in 1966 and again in the 1970’s. Known as The Cinema V for a time.
Then renovated into a bar.
Purchased by the city in 2017 for $60,000; considerably less than the $148,000 appraisal. Many grants received and repairs and improvement made.
Performances and events subsequently held and an art gallery opened. There are plans for future renovations and upgrades into a full fledged performing arts center.
I’ve uploaded two street photos as a movie theatre.
According to an article on early theatres in Weston in the Exponent Telegram of December 27, 2020, the Hollywood opened in October 1935.
This 43 x 140 foot building on the South Side of Main Street was constructed in 1925 by Ferris and Glen Thompson. Over time the Thompson name was associated with theatres throughout Oklahoma.
The theatre closed in 1982.
One source indicates that Wilson, at one time, had also been home to the Dreamland, Empress, Ezy, Hippodrome, Rialto and Yale Theatres.
RKO Century Warner.
Uploaded a photo of the pylon shared with the Causeway Drive-In.
It was touted as the finest in the area when it opened in 1936.
Dallas -At the time Robert Sr, died in 1946 the obituary indicated he had been the owner of the Star and Guy’s Theatres. At the time the drive in opened in 1950 you indicated there were now three theatres run by the family. The question would be whether the second hardtop would be the Guy’s or the Flanary.
I came upon a joint ad for the Star and the Flanary in January 1953 and an ad solely for the Flanary in 1975.
Exterior (and possibly interior) featured in the 2021 Hallmark Christmas movie the Sugar Plum Twist.
I know it’s customary to save taxes to only have a portion of a theatre on the main street with the auditorium behind, but this has got to be the smallest presence ever.
I have uploaded photos of the marquee, the current street view, the current interior and an exterior photo from 1950 which appeared in the Chronicle Herald.
See the photo section announcing that the theatre was going to be twinned for a February 1981 opening. Never happened. I presumed 1981 because the film being shown was Private Benjamin which was a 1980 film.
Joe there is some confusion here. The picture of the supposed Blanchard’s Theatre after it was destroyed by a fire in 1927 has a vertical that reads Strand. Yet the description of the Strand which you’ve linked indicated that the former Hippodrome became the Strand in January 1926. So either the picture of the charred Strand is not Blanchard’s or the article has the wrong date. I suspect the former.
Bloop. The two theatres in Ronkonkoma did show porn at some time but I don’t think simultaneously. The other one was operated by the same owner as the Coram when it was porn oriented.
They finally boarded up the broken windows! But they also boarded up the entrance lobby?????? In addition to the machine and the porta potty I mentioned previously there is also a back hoe within the fenced area.
Uploaded a 1963 photo of Chestnut Street in which the marquee of the Academy is seen to the right.
The Rig was the childhood cinema of singer/songwriter Roy Orbison. He also played there with his bands the Teen Kings and the Wink Westerners. Graffiti from 1951 by Roy and his friends was found in the stairway to the balcony in 1999 and was placed in the Roy Orbison Museum. It was hoped that the theatre would reopen and the museum relocated to the lobby. Sadly it did not.
Uploaded photo by Craig Dunham.
Named by BBCC (Big Bend Community College) the Wallenstein Theatre after a former president. Current photo uploaded.
Uploaded photo by Jason Heppler.
Uploaded photo by Anthony Brundamour.
Uploaded photos of the entrance and an aerial view.
Site is now a community garden.
Uploaded a McDowell Street photo showing the Temple and Pocahontas Theatres across from each other and an interior shot of the Temple.
The Roadhouse was a 250 seat performing arts center housed in a former church. Photo uploaded.