Plaza Theatre

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The third and final Plaza Theatre location in downtown Picher opened on July 12, 1950 with “My Friend Irma Goes West” featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and supported by a sports reel and cartoon. The operators stressed that this was a “new and safe area” away from the condemned part of the city. The building used cement fortification to try to avoid burning down a third time. It achieved that goal although going out of business just over five years later in 1955. However, “safe area” proved to be untrue years later when the town was considered too toxic to exist and it - along with virtually every other building in town - was bulldozed early in the 21st Century.