Brook Theatre
3301 S. Peoria Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74105
3301 S. Peoria Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74105
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Closed July 4th, 1978.
The Brook theatre opened on December 1st, 1949.
Undated photo added courtesy of Paddy Stockand Harwell. Eddie & the Ecclectics under the Brook marquee.
Restaurant gives its address as 3401 S Peoria Ave,
Tulsa, OK 74105.
The closing had its own same-day Tulsa World story, Tuesday, July 4, 1978 (“Brook Theatre Marquee Going Blank”, pp. A20), which noted some earlier local censorship trouble when they tried to exhibit Antonioni’s 1968 classic BLOW-UP. The sendoff: Jimmy Osmond in THE GREAT BRAIN adapted from John D. Fitzgerald’s childrens book series.
Here is yet another web page with photos of the Brook Theatre. The accompanying text says that the Brook served as the home of the American Theatre Company (Tulsa’s leading theatre group) for fifteen years before being converted into a restaurant. ATC’s web site says the Brook became the company’s second stage in 1979, so fifteen years would be just about right if the restaurant conversion took place in the mid-1990s.
The August 2010 issue of “Signs of the Times” features a picture of the current Brook Theater with the following caption: “When the Brook opened as a theater in 1949, it featured "Father Was a Fullback,” which starred Fred MacMurray. The theater features one of Tulsa’s few marquee signs that includes channel-block, double-tube letters; channel-script, sign-tube letters; and neon bandings. The letterbox contains glass panels. The Wally Werr Sign Co. manufacturered the originla sign. The theater building now houses a restaurant.
Roadside Oklahoma gives colorful photographs of the former Loew’s Brook Theatre, Tulsa.
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/730
A 1987 photo of the Brook Theater in Tulsa here and here.
Scroll through this creative web site for recent BROOK pictures -
http://www.agilitynut.com/theatres/ok.html
For detailed information on Tulsa theatre architects (and others) look into this interesting site;
www.tulsaarchitecture.com/architects.htm
Both the BROOK and DELMAN belonged to the powerful LOEW’S Theater Circuit.
This site lists the opening date as 1945 and has a slightly different address. Also contains a small postcard:
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