Cooper Cinerama Theatre
19 N. Robinson Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
19 N. Robinson Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
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Just added ads, articles and pictures of the theatre to the Cinerama web site - https://incinerama.com/coopercinerama.htm . Please do not copy them to this site.
Reopened as the Harber theatre on July 1st, 1951. Grand opening ad posted.
December 13th, 1915
Liberty theater opening Mon, Dec 13, 1915 – 5 · The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Newspapers.com
No ad was found for February 1st, 1916.
Reopened as Cooper on June 19th, 1959.
Cooper Theatre opening Fri, Jun 19, 1959 – 10 · The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Newspapers.com
Early card pic of Liberty Theatre added to Photo Section.
Closed for good on Tuesday, September 2, 1975 (ad states “Ends Today!”) with a new film that hadn’t even entered general US release yet, Fred Williamson and Lee Van Cleef in TAKE A HARD RIDE (Opened in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, August 27 here and also the Tower and South Park Theaters. Official 20th Century Fox release according to IMDB was over two months later on October 29.) and the 2nd feature GORDON’S WAR (1973). [Source: Oklahoma Journal]
Mickey Rooney, 1963 “It’s A……” uploaded in Photo Section.
Mid 60’s day time view pic added to Photo Section showing Cooper Theater on left side of street.
One of the many restorations of Gone With The Wind played there, I believe in 1966.
See 1925 Liberty Theatre Ad for “Phantom of the Opera” in Photo Section with some bargain prices.
1953 Pic of Harber added to Photo Section.
Wow this theater looks so much like the Gateway theater in Ft Lauderdale. Pull it up and see.
Early Liberty Theatre Pic added to Photo Section.
Pic of Cooper during Cinerama era added to photo section.
Pic of Liberty Theater added to photo section
A swell 1932 view of the Liberty Theatre.
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In this 1940s image is an unusual view (far right) of the old Liberty Theatre,
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In this 1940s image is an unusual view (far right) of the old Liberty Theatre,
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Leftside of this 1930’s picture is the old Liberty Theatre
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An unusual but clear 1941 picture of this theatre when it was still called liberty can be seen by going above to cosmo’s Nov. 8, 2009 link and enter “elmer’s place bar”
Off topic … above there are three comments on W. W. Ahlschlager who created NYC’s swanky Roxy Theatre. Take this shorcut to see a picture postcard of Oklahoma City’s Ramsey Tower, also designed by Ahlschlager.
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Apparently a billiard parlor was originally included within the Liberty layout. To view an exterior (c1920) shot of the Liberty Theatre type in the word “billiard” -
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If you wish, you can type in the name “Liberty” instead, but you’ll have to browse through a lot of other Liberty theatres, and a number of bank buildings.
Presented on this site is a c1959 photo of the Cinerama Cooper Theater -
http://cinerama.topcities.com/coopercinerama.htm
Oops, Cooper Theater is seen PHOTO RIGHT in the above mentioned snapshot.
In response to Mr. Vogel’s 7/9/09 posting.
Though built shoulder to shoulder, the Warner Liberty Theatre lobby and auditorium were actually two seperate buildings. In 1950 a Modernistic structure replaced the original lobby. The 1915 auditorium was only remodeled (if stripping away all ornamentation could be considered remodeling). Lush drapes were installed, and a wall was built midway across the balcony to decrease balcony seating capacity by half.
Jeff Chapman’s 1970 snapshot from CT shows the Cooper auditorium and stagehouse on photo left-
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