Park Theater
117 W. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
117 W. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
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Previously operated by: Griffith Amusement Company
Previous Names: Adelphos Theater, Ritz Theater
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The Adelphos Theater was opened April 19, 1921. It was renamed Ritz Theater in October 1927. The name was later changed to Park Theater. It primarily showed B-movies and westerns.
After closing it spent some time as a retail arcade, and a bar. It was demolished in summer of 2015.
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Sharp focus antique photographs of this movie house, when it was still known as Ritz, can be seen by typing word “ritz” on site below.
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A 1987 photo of the Park Theater building in Ardmore.
A view from 2009 of the Ritz / Park Theater building in Ardmore.
Don…
Vintage photos of the Park (AKA_Ritz) Theatre can be seen;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/driveinsok
This is what the Park Theatre looks like nowadays,
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Here’s 6 Photos I took back in November of 2007. Enjoy.
Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
1926 and 1954 grand opening ads in photo section. It closed when the Video Twin opened.
This theater is older than we thought. A house called the Adelphos Theatre opened in Ardmore in 1921. I haven’t found the theater’s address, but a 1921 advertisement for “Doctor Black’s Dental Parlor” gives his office address as 117 ½ West Main Street, with its entrance “…in Adelphos Theatre.” The Adelphos had to have been the house at 117 West Main Street.
The Adelphos Theatre was to open on Tuesday, April 19, 1921, according to a brief article in the previous Sunday’s Daily Ardmoreite. Through the early 1920s, the Adelphos, the Princess, and the Palace were the three theaters that advertised in the newspaper regularly, and they were all within a block of each other on the north side of West Main Street. It must have been the brightest block in Ardmore at night.
Here is an item from the October 7, 1927, issue of Motion Picture News:
The October 21 issue of the same journal had this follow-up item (this time with the correct name of the new owners):Another item appeared in the issue of October 28:Upload of Park Theater pic from 50’s added to Photo Section.