Globe Theater
7 E. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
7 E. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
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Originally the site of the Roxy Theater which was destroyed by fire in 1943. The Globe Theater was opened April 12, 1945 and primarily showed westerns at that time. It was located on East Main Street by Pioneer Hardware and was owned by Hershel Gilliam and Bernice Veal. It was closed around 1959.
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As of a few years ago, the Globe was a furniture store.
The January 20, 1958, issue of Boxoffice ran an item mentioning the Globe: “Herschel Gilliam, better known as ‘Wild Bill,’ was in the exchange area here and said that he finally had to install CinemaScope equipment in his Globe Theatre at Ardmore. Gilliam is very optimistic about the future of motion picture theatres, especially in Ardmore. Theatres there are helped a lot by patronage from the Air Force base a few miles from town.”
Perhaps Wild Bill was over-optimistic. The Oklahoma City news column in the June 1, 1959, issue of Boxoffice mentions among visitors to film row “…Herschel ‘Wild Bill” Gilliam, Globe Theatre, Ardmore, who will close about June 1.“ The item doesn’t specify if this was a temporary closing or a permanent closing, but I’ve found no items about the Globe in later issues of Boxoffice.
Here is a modern view of Main and Washington,
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April 12th, 1945 grand opening ad in photo section. Listings stopped in 1953.
I don’t know how reliable this page is (it is mostly about Ardmore Army Air Field during WWII,) but here is something it says:
In the current Google street view 7 E. Main Street is a freshly graded dirt lot between a parking lot and an old brick building. It looks like the Globe Theatre building was demolished not long before the picture was taken.